Merijn de Weerd wrote:
[...]
> If you distribute the PostgreSQL server software linked with
> the PostGIS software, then you have to comply with the GPL
> for both parts of that derivative work.
>
> If you don't distribute any server software, you do not have
> to worry about what the GPL require
On 2006-10-20, Karen Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you make create a PostgreSQL database that uses PostGIS and you
> distribute that database, than your database (tables, stored
> procedures, views, etc) are GPL?
No, because those tables, stored procedures etc. are not
derivative works of
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 03:35:34PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Exactly. The "Linus View" is that dynamic linking and "socket
> conversations" are *not* linking in the GPL2 meaning, but the FSF &
> RMS think differently. The GPL3 seems to codify that strictness.
Dynamic linking may be an issue, b
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On 10/20/06 13:49, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Karen Hill wrote:
>> I was looking through the various contrib packages and pgfoundry
>> projects. I noticed that many of them are GPL like PostGIS or LGPL
>> like Npgsql. I have questions.
>>
>> If you ma
Karen Hill wrote:
> John Hasler wrote:
>
>>> Npgsql is LGPL. It means you must release the source of Npgsql when
>>> distributing it, and if you modify Npgsql, but not have to release the
>>> source under the (L)GPL of the software that calls Npgsql functions?
>> Pretty much, but you must provide
Karen Hill wrote:
> If you make create a PostgreSQL database that uses PostGIS and you
> distribute that database, than your database (tables, stored
> procedures, views, etc) are GPL?
Nothing ever becomes GPL automatically. You may wish to distribute your
own work under the GPL, but you don't h
John Hasler wrote:
> > Npgsql is LGPL. It means you must release the source of Npgsql when
> > distributing it, and if you modify Npgsql, but not have to release the
> > source under the (L)GPL of the software that calls Npgsql functions?
>
> Pretty much, but you must provide your software in a
Karen Hill wrote:
> I was looking through the various contrib packages and pgfoundry
> projects. I noticed that many of them are GPL like PostGIS or LGPL
> like Npgsql. I have questions.
>
> If you make create a PostgreSQL database that uses PostGIS and you
> distribute that database, than your
I was looking through the various contrib packages and pgfoundry
projects. I noticed that many of them are GPL like PostGIS or LGPL
like Npgsql. I have questions.
If you make create a PostgreSQL database that uses PostGIS and you
distribute that database, than your database (tables, stored
proc
