On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 6:35 PM Ron <ronljohnso...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 9/18/19 8:26 PM, Ken Tanzer wrote: > > 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." > > > How do you sell what you don't own? > > You can do so because the owners have granted you the right to do so. They were just good enough to not charge you money for it.
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