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

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