[postgis-users] Postgis-CommercialLicence

[Paul Ramsey]

That's very very old. Everyone has contributed under the understanding
the product is GPL, a license change is very unlikely. The only change
that occurred was the Java client code under ./java got moved to an
LGPL license, so people could use it in their software directly and
not have a GPL issue. If all that is happening is your application is
*using* PostGIS, as a database extension, in an
unmodified-as-downloaded state then there is no GPL issue at all. If
you happen to have modified *PostGIS itself*, then do return or
publish those changes.

This isn't a FAQ, but it seems to take too many words to resolve :/

P

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Madhav Vodnala <mvodnala at gmail.com> wrote:
> This link has some old discussion on this subject.
> http://postgis.refractions.net/pipermail/postgis-users/2001-August/000207.ht
> ml
>
> Not sure what is the current status.
>
> Perhaps it's good idea to post a short notes on licensing at
> http://postgis.refractions.net
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of Paul
> Ramsey
> Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 8:02 AM
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> Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Postgis-CommercialLicence
>
> There is no implication with using the database, you can license your
> client software anyway you like.
>
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 5:30 AM, iceDice <nmilasinovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I want to develop commercial Java GIS application and use PostgreSQL with
>> Postgis for storing spatial data. I am interested what are constraints of
>> using
>> Postgis in commercial applications? I know that PostgreSQL is BSD licensed
>> but
>> Postgis is GPL licensed. Is that mean that i must open all my source code
>> only because i using Postgis for spacially enabling PostgreSQL?
>> I intend to use GeoTools gt-postgis.jar library for accessing Postgis
>> columns
>> in database (GeoTools is LGPL licensed).
>>
>> Best regards.
>> --
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> http://www.nabble.com/Postgis-CommercialLicence-tp25531112p25531112.html
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