On Friday 10 November 2006 18:03, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 15:21 +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > > Yes, theoretically only the copyright holder(s) can change the license. > > However, the FSFE agreement is a fiduciary relationship, which is entered > > into for the purpose of protecting and defending the copyright. They leave > > the project management up to the project. Legally, they can change the > > license, but their intention is to change it only if the project wants to > > change it, or to be able to change the license if the project no longer > > exists and someone comes and tries to scoop up the code and make it non-free. > > Is a non-free version a big issue for you? I've always been a big fan > of perl's dual-license approach which effectively removes the > restrictions > of the GPL while allowing it to co-exist with GPL'd components. I think > it's been a good thing for everyone. >
I'm not aware of what Perl's dual license is. If it is something like what MySQL does, i.e. offer special versions for a price, then I'm not very enthousiastic about that kind of model for Bacula. Nor would I like to see some Venture Capital effort come along and snap up Bacula as they have done for Amanda. I also don't particularly like the BSD licenses as they don't require a "tit for a tat" as Linus calls it. I have no problem with others chosing the license and business model they want, but it is not what I have wanted and continue to want for Bacula. MySQL models result in a project that is no longer driven by contributions, but is driven by paid employees from commercial revenues. BSD type licenses don't guarantee that the "project" remains Free Source (e.g., if I am not mistaken, the Microsoft networking code was pulled from the BSD stack, but none of their fixes or enhancements have gone back to the community that provided them the code for free). The parts of Bacula that I feel could be used in proprietary code to interface to Bacula are released under LGPL so that vendors can develop proprietary code to interface with Bacula without starting from scratch. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
