On Wednesday 24 August 2005 16:41, Matthias Kurz wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > [...] > > > If you want to read about my idea, please visit: > > http://www.bacula.org/OpenSourceFunding.html Your comments are welcome. > > Hi. > > Can you say with few words what the consequences of this are for > (free) packaging projects like Debian, BSD ports, OpenPKG,... ?
No change, because to the best of my knowledge none of these use Bacula binaries. If some Open Source project wants to re-distribute our binaries, we will need to discuss it. > > Are they allowed to continue building and distributing packages without > any restriction ? Yes, of course. The source is open for everyone to use. Even companies and others can avoid any charges by building from source. > > Do they have to pay No. I think that was pretty well explained in the doc. > or do they have to control whether the users of > their packages will pay ? Yes. This was also discussed in the doc. -- Best regards, Kern ("> /\ V_V ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users