Обсуждение: Re: PostgreSQL documentation license

The PostgreSQL documentation has a BSD copyright, meaning you can do
anything with it, including sell it.

> Hi,
>
> Please could you tell me what is the PostgreSQL documentation's license ?
>
> I'll have to write a course on PostgreSQL (in french only) and I want to
> know if I could just translate PostgreSQL reference cards for each
> SQL command, e.g. I'm particularly interested in translating the synopsis
> and some of the description of each SQL command manpage, and then
> incorporating them in my own work's appendices.
>
> Do you allow me to do that ?
>
> thanks in advance.
>
> Jerome Alet - alet@unice.fr - http://cortex.unice.fr/~jerome
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On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 08:48:56AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> The PostgreSQL documentation has a BSD copyright, meaning you can do
> anything with it, including sell it.

Although, if you're not going to sell it, it'd be nice to submit the
translated docs back to the project. I don't think we currently have
a mechanism for maintaining docs in multiple languages (there's one
FAQ in Chinese, I think). But that shouldn't stop you from submitting
them: we'd invent a mechanism, perhaps. ;-)

Ross

>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Please could you tell me what is the PostgreSQL documentation's license ?
> >
> > I'll have to write a course on PostgreSQL (in french only) and I want to
> > know if I could just translate PostgreSQL reference cards for each
> > SQL command, e.g. I'm particularly interested in translating the synopsis
> > and some of the description of each SQL command manpage, and then
> > incorporating them in my own work's appendices.
> >
> > Do you allow me to do that ?
> >
--
Ross J. Reedstrom, Ph.D., <reedstrm@rice.edu>
NSBRI Research Scientist/Programmer
Computer and Information Technology Institute
Rice University, 6100 S. Main St.,  Houston, TX 77005

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> The PostgreSQL documentation has a BSD copyright, meaning you can do
> anything with it, including sell it.

Thanks.

I wasn't sure because we often see special licenses for the documentation
but nothing special appeared in PG's docs.

bye,

Jerome Alet

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Ross J. Reedstrom wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 08:48:56AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > The PostgreSQL documentation has a BSD copyright, meaning you can do
> > anything with it, including sell it.
>
> Although, if you're not going to sell it, it'd be nice to submit the
> translated docs back to the project. I don't think we currently have
> a mechanism for maintaining docs in multiple languages (there's one
> FAQ in Chinese, I think). But that shouldn't stop you from submitting
> them: we'd invent a mechanism, perhaps. ;-)

Unfortunately this doesn't depend on me.

However parts of the work will be under a free license.

bye, and thanks again

Jerome Alet