Will PostgreSQL ever change its license?
(Disclosure: I’m on the PostgreSQL Core Team, but what’s written in this post are my personal views and not official project statements…unless I link to something that’s an official project statement ;)
I was very sad to learn today that the Redis project will no longer be released under an open source license. Sad for two reasons: as a longtime Redis user and pretty early adopter, and as an open source contributor. I’ll preface that I’m empathetic to the challenges of building businesses around open source, having been on multiple sides of this equation. I’m also cognizant of the downstream effects of these changes that can completely flip how a user adopts and uses a piece of technology.
Whenever there’s a shakeup in open source licensing, particularly amongst databases and related systems (MySQL => Sun => Oracle being the one that first springs to mind), I’ll hear the question “Will PostgreSQL ever change its license?”
Will PostgreSQL ever be released under a different license? The PostgreSQL Global Development Group remains committed to making PostgreSQL available as free and open > source software in perpetuity. There are no plans to change the PostgreSQL License or release PostgreSQL under a different license.
