Licensing

[Bryan Boone]

Hello Everyone.  I have a question about licensing with PostgeSQL.

I work for a small company and we design websites for customers of ours.  I 
read the license that is listed here.

https://www.postgresql.org/about/licence/ 


However, I am still confused.

The small company I work for develops websites and applications on AWS EC2 
instances for our customers and we charge the customers a fee for hosting and 
for maintaining their websites.

I am trying to figure out which dbase software I can use and if I need to buy 
licenses or not.

We do not modify the PostgreSQL code and we do not redistribute the binaries.  
So far we are just running on a single instance for each of our customers, but 
we are not utilizing anything like a cluster or high availability CDN, other 
than what AWS EC2 provides.  We always utilize Wordpress and Drupal for site 
front-end.

Can someone tell me if I am able to use PostgreSQL for the small company I work 
for?  Is there a way to by a commercial license of PostgreSQL if we are 
required too?

Thanks

Re: Licensing

[Bryan Boone]

Ah okay thank you.  I think what was confusing me was the “without fee”.

I wasn’t sure if that meant we could distribute it, but only if we did not 
charge a fee for it.  But I guess that means that PostgreSQL will not charge a 
fee to us to distribute it.

Thanks



> On Aug 18, 2021, at 12:13 PM, Adrian Klaver  wrote:
> 
> On 8/18/21 11:39 AM, Bryan Boone wrote:
>> Hello Everyone.  I have a question about licensing with PostgeSQL.
>> I work for a small company and we design websites for customers of ours.   I 
>> read the license that is listed here.
>> https://www.postgresql.org/about/licence/ However, I am still confused.
> 
> I would think:
> 
> "Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its 
> documentation for any purpose, without fee, and without a written agreement 
> is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this 
> paragraph and the following two paragraphs appear in all copies. "
> 
> pretty much covers it, no fee, no written agreement is needed.
> 
>> Thanks
> 
> 
> -- 
> Adrian Klaver
> adrian.kla...@aklaver.com