Re: Bundling pgsql to commercial product

Hi

your use-case and solution is absolutely legal - PostgreSQL uses BSD
licence and there is nothing disallowed.

Same model uses Czech accounting system - flexibee
https://www.flexibee.eu/?gclid=Cj0KEQjwhPaqBRDG2uiHzpKLi6ABEiQAk_XXiVcSLWOI7WvR8Er88TsarlLO-RvNRZIo54UhuR9NYVUaAlVZ8P8HAQ

Regards

Pavel Stehule

2015-05-21 10:34 GMT+02:00 Martin Popelak <martin(dot)popelak(at)polarion(dot)com>:

> Hi All,
>
> We are thinking of bundling PostgreSQL as part of our commercial product
> for windows distribution. For linux distribution administrators would
> download it thru their package managers but for windows we would like to
> distribute the binaries within our product distribution for painless
> installation.
>
> We have been really concern if we are able to do this from licensing point
> of view. As our product is under commercial license. I have read a few
> articles on this subject that are confirming that we can do this from legal
> point of view. Of course I would appreciate if you have any resources
> saying that this is bad idea.
>
> My question is if you, community of PosgreSQL, know any commercial
> licensed product that is doing the same, shipping the PostreSQL binaries
> directly within their product bundle. I would appreciate any leads on this
> subject.
>
> Martin
> Polarion Software
>