On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 05:09:53PM +0200, Nuno Brito wrote:
> What is your opinion?
If you need legal advice ask a lawyer.
> Does the described usage counts as a GPL compliant usage of the GPL
> Bacula within a closed-source system?
Making cron call bacula within your closed system doesn't violate the
GPL.
You may use bacula in closed source systems as well as in open source
systems. If you distribute bacula within your product, you have to
fulfill the license requirements. In this case it should be, provide the
bacula source the very same way as well as the bacula license. If you
need to modify bacula for additional features, you have to publish the
source for this just as well.
If your program directly links against bacula code, your program will be
GPL2 as well and you will have to publish the source the same way you
publish your program.
A good sample are the various WLAN routers out there. Many of them have
parts of the used programs as source on CD/as download to fullfill the
license of these specific parts.
Apart from that, whatever your program does, consider making it open
source. There are many working business models that don't require a
closed source license and if your software even includes a backup system
like bacula it is probably not exactly zero maintaince.
Regards,
Adrian
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