Show HN: PgDog – Shard Postgres without extensions

Re:Show HN: PgDog – Shard Postgres without extensions by wredcoll on Monday May 26, 2025 @11:24PM (#44103698)

> Unfortunately this advice is incompatible with that of most legal departments.

I see this comment pop up every now and then on HN in specific, but I've never personally had a lawyer tell me this; is there any chance anyone could share an actual example of this?

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Re:Show HN: PgDog – Shard Postgres without extensions by qaq on Tuesday May 27, 2025 @02:15AM (#44104347)

Well in all large orgs legal has rules which licenses are allowed for dependencies generally it's MIT, Apache, BSD and the like

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Re:Show HN: PgDog – Shard Postgres without extensions by jpambrun on Tuesday May 27, 2025 @08:47AM (#44106425)

I worked in a large org with 100,000+ employees. You could just use software with pre-approved licences and I am 99% sure AGPL wasn't one of them.

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Re:Show HN: PgDog – Shard Postgres without extensions by mdaniel on Tuesday May 27, 2025 @11:34AM (#44107947)

Google is in that camp, and I would bet they don't skimp on lawyers https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl...

I didn't spot it previously but they've even gone so far as to treat it like an actual virus https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl...

FWIW they have a similar stance about SSPL https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/thirdparty...

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