On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 5:55 PM Ron <ronljohnso...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 9/18/19 6:03 PM, Ken Tanzer wrote: > > > > On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 3:20 PM Ron <ronljohnso...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Charging for *installing* PostgreSQL is not the same as charging for >> PostgreSQL. >> >> Bottom line: you charge for *services** you provide* not for software >> that other people provide. >> >> That's just really not true. There is nothing that prohibits you from > selling Postgresql. I mean, it's not a great business model because you > can get it for free, but there's nothing that stops you from doing it. > > > Quoting Adrian Klaver in this thread from about eight hours ago: "You > cannot (legitimately) charge the pharmacist for any part PostgresQL." > > > Actually that's Rob Sargent you're quoting. Adrian took issue with that statement, as do I. While Google isn't finding me anything that says "Yes, you can sell Postgresql," here are a few points:
- Point to anything in the license wording that says you can't charge money to distribute Postgresql. You can't. - Even software licensed under the GPL, which is a considerably more restrictive license, can be sold. The free software folks consider the right to sell as one of the freedoms associated with free software. [1] - The Postgresql license page says it is "a liberal Open Source license, similar to the BSD or MIT licenses." [2] The MIT license itself explicitly states that it grants rights to "sell copies of the software." Cheers, Ken [1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html [2] https://www.postgresql.org/about/licence/ [3] https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT -- AGENCY Software A Free Software data system By and for non-profits *http://agency-software.org/ <http://agency-software.org/>* *https://demo.agency-software.org/client <https://demo.agency-software.org/client>* ken.tan...@agency-software.org (253) 245-3801 Subscribe to the mailing list <agency-general-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?body=subscribe> to learn more about AGENCY or follow the discussion.
