On 9/18/19 11:23 AM, Rob Sargent wrote:
On Sep 18, 2019, at 12:17 PM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 9/18/19 11:06 AM, Rob Sargent wrote:
On 9/18/19 11:50 AM, Ashkar Dev wrote:
Hi all thanks,
I meant maybe I create a web app with PostgreSQL that work locally for example for a pharmacy that stores data by barcode while the DB was created by PostgreSQL how I can sell the Database for him, how to deliver the product to him can I sell the package that contains web app files with PostgreSQL software and the database code?
You can charge the pharmacist for your efforts: your web app (license), installing postgres and your schema (somewhere) and the data supporting your web-app, any documentation of your web-app and schema, any maintenance and support you care to specify. You can copy-right your app and schema and data.
You cannot (legitimately) charge the pharmacist for any part PostgresQL.
Why not?
Pretty sure that is what third parties are doing with their forks of Postgres.
I see your point, but aren’t they in essence charging for their efforts in making, managing their fork. There are plenty of vendors, for a time I was one, who happily apply a schema to which ever database the client supplied (mssql, ora, pg in my case).
In general that pretty much applies to a lot of software that has price.
You don't actually own the software, just a paid license to use it. I'm
not saying whether it is a good idea or not, just that it is possible.
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Adrian Klaver
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