[postgis-users] Using PostGIS in commercial application

[Paul Ramsey]

I would say that, by bundling everything into one installer, you're
beginning to brush up against the GPL's derived product language,

"You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole
or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part
thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties
under the terms of this License."

Since you are distributing a work that contains a GPL component. The
simple expedient would be to distribute two installers, one for the
database (and anything else you don't mind being covered by the GPL),
and one for your application.

Yours,

Paul

On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Andrew Smolko <andrewsmolko at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> We want to use PostGIS in our server commercial application and there
> has arisen a question about violation of PostGIS license.
> To simplify the installation of our product for customers we want to
> create an install package which includes our server application,
> PostgreSQL and PostGIS. We do not modify PostGIS in any way, we just
> take official binaries zip file and include its contents in our
> installation.
>
> Do we violate PostGIS GPL license by doing the way I described?
>
> Thanks in advance!
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