Karen Hill wrote: > If you make create a PostgreSQL database that uses PostGIS and you > distribute that database, than your database (tables, stored > procedures, views, etc) are GPL? Nothing ever becomes GPL automatically. You may wish to distribute your own work under the GPL, but you don't have to. > Like wise if you create a client > that connects to that database, do they also become GPL? Likewise. > Does > PostgreSQL in effect become GPL when using PostGIS because PostGIS > accesses parts of PostgreSQL? Likewise. > Npgsql is LGPL. It means you must release the source of Npgsql when > distributing it, and if you modify Npgsql, but not have to release > the source under the (L)GPL of the software that calls Npgsql > functions? Correct. > If you provide the source on a CD and the (GPL/LGPL) license as a > text file on that CD if you distribute, then are your obligations met > under the GPL/LGPL? That depends on the distribution methods of the non-source. > What if those you distribute to lose the source > code CD, can they then come after you X number of years later > demanding the source? No. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/
