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Will PostgreSQL ever change its license?

4 pointsby tudorgabout 1 year ago

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declaredappleabout 1 year ago
&gt; But the biggest reason why PostgreSQL would not change its license is the disservice it would do to all PostgreSQL users. It takes a long time to build trust in a technology that is often used for the most critical part of an application: storage and retrieval of data<p>&gt; Changing the license of PostgreSQL would shatter all of the goodwill the project has built up through the past (nearly) 30 years.<p>I love Postgres and I have no reason to think they would change their license. But IMO any type of &quot;it would be a disservice to users&quot; is useless. This blog post itself is in response to Redis changing their license after 15 years. Surely this would be a disservice to their users?<p>Businesses have proven time and time again - They will absolutely cause a &quot;disservice to users&quot; or &quot;harm the product&quot; once money is involved.<p>Again I recognize the way PostgresQL is structured gives me hope this wouldn&#x27;t happen, but a simple &quot;we wouldn&#x27;t break user trust&quot; is meaningless.