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 <pram...@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 <andrewsmo...@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! > > _______________________________________________ > > postgis-users mailing list > > postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net > > http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net > http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users >
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