Hello, Quite a number of you have asked me to keep you informed about the Bacula Systems lawsuit against Bareos. If you don't want to hear about it, please delete this email.
Bareos has responded (11 April 2014) to the Bacula Systems lawsuit that was filed on 6 December 2013. I have now had a chance to read over what they respond and their new allegations, and have forwarded my remarks to the Bacula Systems lawyer. Concerning the procedure, if I am not mistaken, Bacula Systems will respond (max delay 3 months), then Bareos will respond again (max delay 3 months), then there will be testimony of witnesses and finally the pleadings. All this will take quite a long time -- this is a bit frustrating but the way the law works here in Switzerland (and I believe it is pretty much similar elsewhere). I won't go into it in much detail right now, but at some point, I will undoubtedly publish everything. However, the Bareos response is really quite shocking to me because of their ignorance of what open source is, and in particular what the AGPLv3 license actually says. I understand that may people have not read the AGPLv3 and even if you have, it is not always easy to understand, but when you are involved in a lawsuit, you would think that before responding one would at least get solid legal advice rather than furnishing a written response with patently incorrect assertions. There are a number of other even more mind boggling points, but for the moment, I have been muzzled :-( Best regards, Kern ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free." http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
