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.
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Best regards,
Kern
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