[Info-vax] Migrating from Rdb to Open Source Postgres

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/24/2023 5:33 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2023-02-24 kl. 22:13, skrev Simon Clubley:
>> On 2023-02-24, Denys Beauchemin <denysftr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Over the last several years, Postgres has acquired a solid reputation 
>>> as a
>>> dependable, mission-critical RDBMS.  One of its benefit is that it?s 
>>> Open
>>> Source, ie, license free.  You can install it on as many servers as 
>>> you want,
>>> with any number of CPUs, for any number of users, no charge.
>>
>> Well, that's a load of bollocks.
>>
>> Open Source software is not the same thing as licence-free software
>> and the vast majority of it _is_ released under a licence.
>>
>> I hope you have more respect for Open Source software elsewhere than
>> that if you use any of it in your own software.
> 
> I would not say "loads of bollocks".
> I'm sure anyone understand that it meant "a license with no cost"...

I did not even notice it.

I just read "license-fee-free" instead of "license-free".

> And we all know that OSS normaly comes with some kind of license.

And PostgreSQL comes under its own license - a permissive
license similar to BSD and MIT licenses.

> Not all applications using Rdb are using SQLMOD.

Some use embedded SQL.

Some use JDBC.

Maybe there are even some that are using the SQL Services
API.

Arne