On Monday 13 November 2006 11:21, Alan Brown wrote: > 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.
What I like about the agreement with FSFE is that it covers to a large extent this point. As it stands today, I'm not really much in a position to defend my copyright from a financial point of view, from a legal point of view, or from a point of view of motivation (i.e. enduring the agravation of a lawsuit). The agreement with FSFE really covers this quite nicely as they have every interest to defend Free Source, they have the legal expertise, and they (as indicated in their recent announcement) have a close working relationship with Harald Welte of gpl-violations.org. Unless I am mistaken, what I give up for this extra protection is the ability to sign a closed-source proprietary deal and collect royalties, though I'm not 100% sure that I could not do so under the rights they give me in signing the agreement. In any case, that is not really very important because I have always said from the beginning of the project that I was not doing this project to make money. What motivates me a lot for this is the realization that creating any Bacula structure that was capable of holding the copright would take a significant amount of time (at least 6 months) and energy. See: http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/press-release/2006q4/000159.html for more details of the FSFE and gpl-violations.org relationship. > > This (to me) is the fundamental flaw of BSD-style licenses.(*) Yes, I agree, and though theoretically FSFE could convert Bacula to a BSD license, I think that is about as probable as a metorite striking earth and destroying all life on the planet. > > 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. Thanks for your comments. Kern ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
