On Jul 12, 2007, at 8:56 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Thursday 12 July 2007 15:21, Dan Langille wrote: >> On 12 Jul 2007 at 15:15, Kern Sibbald wrote: >>> If no one wants to test the Win32 version and report back on it >>> (particularly Vista, Vista VSS, and reparse points), I will test it >>> myself. However, in that case, I am condering not making the >>> binaries >>> available on Source Forge, but on some other site and for a fee. Of >>> course, you can build it yourself for free -- as is always the case. >> >> I like this idea. Perhaps it will encourage a company to devote >> staff time to building the Windows binaries for all. > > I'm glad you like the idea. I am thinking about doing the same > thing for all > the Bacula binaries. > > Any company, University, or government would have to purchase the > binaries (or > build them for themselves). Any individual or charitable > organization could > download the binaries for free. Any company that had contributed to > the > Bacula project could download the binaries for free a number of times > determined by their contribution, but at least once. Revenues > received from > this would be used to employ developers to produce some of the high- > end > features that we need. Obviously, the source will continue be fully > available for anyone to build for themselves.
How does this impact distributors? Specifically I am thinking of Debian, but I think it's more broadly applicable. I would guess that since Bacula is GPL, there's no issue with third parties distributing binaries, as long as they also provide source for those binaries, but that sounds like something you want to discourage if you plan to enforce your pay-for-binaries regimen and actually collect a revenue stream from binary distribution. Are you planning on changing the license to forbid third parties from doing so? Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
