On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Les Mikesell wrote: > 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.
My only concern would be any form of license which allows a vendor to ship Bacula as a closed-source proprietary product without Kern's permission and without paying him royalties. This (to me) is the fundamental flaw of BSD-style licenses.(*) The superiority of GPL-license community developed products over BSD-license ones is well illustrated by the shenanigans that several vendors (especially Broadcom!) have gotten up to in order to disguise GPL-cored products (particularly embedded systems using the Busybox package - see www.gpl-violations.org) and claim them as proprietary. (*) That doesn't mean I think that GPLv3 is OK. AB ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
