> On Feb 1, 2015, at 7:30 PM, Heitor Faria <hei...@bacula.com.br> wrote:
>
> Dear Bacula Users,
>
> I'll try to express my impartial opinion here, as a lawyer with a little
> knowledge of intelectual property, hoping that anyone gets mad at me and to
> settle this. =)
There is no reason to get mad at you.
> Bacula is licensed by GNU Affero General Public License version 3, witch
> requires code modifications to be licensed with the same way, even though it
> doesn't obligate the modifier to publish it.
> However, MOST of the code developed by Bacula Enterprise are in the form of
> Plugins (Vmware, Databases, etc.) and GUI (bweb), that CAN'T be considered
> derivations / modifications of the original Bacula Source code. In fact
> anyone can develop those accessories, like Webacula, Reportula, Webmin, etc.
> Some of them, in fact, use different programming language, so there is no way
> to contest the legality of those binaries. BE can license those in any way
> they want.
That's pretty interesting. Thank you.
There is at least one other fork Bacula which started in a very different
fashion; they work with the project and things are very amicable. This is not
widely known. The problem has not arisen just because there is a fork.
—
Dan Langille
http://langille <http://langille/>.org/
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