[postgis-users] Using PostGIS in commercial application

[Josh Jordan]

I think it should be ok as long as you open source any custom patches in
the postgis that you distribute.  Its common for installers to guide you
thru a series of installations, you can see that in action if you try to
install gimp for windows, it will first guide you thru installing gtk.

-Josh Jordan

On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Paul Ramsey <pramsey at opengeo.org> wrote:

> 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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