Dear Bacula Users,
I'll try to express my impartial opinion here, as a lawyer with a little
knowledge of intelectual property, hoping that anyone gets mad at me and to
settle this. =)
Bacula is licensed by GNU Affero General Public License version 3, witch
requires code modifications to be licensed with the same way, even though it
doesn't obligate the modifier to publish it.
However, MOST of the code developed by Bacula Enterprise are in the form of
Plugins (Vmware, Databases, etc.) and GUI (bweb), that CAN'T be considered
derivations / modifications of the original Bacula Source code. In fact anyone
can develop those accessories, like Webacula, Reportula, Webmin, etc. Some of
them, in fact, use different programming language, so there is no way to
contest the legality of those binaries. BE can license those in any way they
want.
Regards,
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----- Mensagem original -----
> De: "Ben Erridge" <b...@cyberoblivion.com>
> Para: "Dan Langille" <d...@langille.org>
> Cc: "bacula-users" <bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Enviadas: Domingo, 1 de fevereiro de 2015 21:11:05
> Assunto: Re: [Bacula-users] Request for help
> The whole paraphrasing, "Bacula will sue you" I saw directly on the Bacula
> Systems site.. I 'm sure it was worded a bit more PC. But it threatened the
> possibility of legal action against anyone using the bareos software. The
> whole branching/forking is bad I read many places including backups.org , I
> think Kern's blog, and also in a power point presentation I believe used by
> Bacula Systems for some conference in Europe last year. I am not spending my
> evening finding the links. You certainly have every right to find me full of
> shit and disregard my opinion.
> > On Feb 1, 2015, at 2:46 PM, Ben Erridge < b...@cyberoblivion.com > wrote:
> >
> > I doubt my opinion holds much weight either way but if you want my opinion
> > here it is;
> >
> > As anyone would expect both sides say the other one is lying about many
> > things. I can only assume, at this point, the truth lies somewhere in
> > between.
> >
> > With that said I think this lawsuit only hurts Bacula. I never even heard
> > of Bareos until this lawsuit came up. Then I started reading about it all
> > over the place. Including a bunch of nonsense out of the Bacula camp like,
> > “If you use Baroes software, Bacula will sue you” and “Braching is bad for
> > open source”.
> Do you have URLs for that? I didn't see any of that from the Bacula project.
> —
> Dan Langille
> http://langille.org/
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