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Heitor,
Thanks for the support. One note: people seem to be somewhat
divided on whether or not dynamically linked libraries (.so on
Linux and .dll on Windows) commonly called plugins are really part
of the "source code" that they work with. One school says that
they fall under the GPL (if the main program with which they work
is GPL), because they depend so closely on the program (i.e. they
are derived works). Another school says they are independent
works. If I am not mistaken, the Free Software Foundation takes
the former stand, but on the other hand, one can obtain kernel
modules that depend on kernel headers such as the NVidia driver
which are proprietary. I find plugins quite a gray area when
talking about licensing and the GPL.
While much or even most of Bacula Systems extensions to Bacula are
in plugins, Bacula Systems also relies on the fact that
contributors have signed a fiduciary license agreement permitting
me to use their contributions under other licenses (including
non-free). This licensing benefits everyone.
Best regards,
Kern
On 02.02.2015 01:30, Heitor Faria 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. =)
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.
Regards,
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Heitor Medrado de Faria - LPIC-III | ITIL-F
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De: "Ben
Erridge" <b...@cyberoblivion.com>
Para: "Dan Langille" <d...@langille.org>
Cc: "bacula-users"
<bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Enviadas: Domingo, 1 de fevereiro de 2015 21:11:05
Assunto: Re: [Bacula-users] Request for help
The whole paraphrasing, "Bacula will sue you" I saw
directly on the Bacula Systems site.. I 'm sure it was
worded a bit more PC. But it threatened the possibility of
legal action against anyone using the bareos software. The
whole branching/forking is bad I read many places including
backups.org,
I think Kern's blog, and also in a power point presentation
I believe used by Bacula Systems for some conference in
Europe last year. I am not spending my evening finding the
links. You certainly have every right to find me full of
shit and disregard my opinion.
> On Feb 1, 2015, at 2:46 PM, Ben Erridge <b...@cyberoblivion.com>
wrote:
>
> I doubt my opinion holds much weight either way but if
you want my opinion here it is;
>
> As anyone would expect both sides say the other one is
lying about many things. I can only assume, at this point,
the truth lies somewhere in between.
>
> With that said I think this lawsuit only hurts Bacula.
I never even heard of Bareos until this lawsuit came up.
Then I started reading about it all over the place.
Including a bunch of nonsense out of the Bacula camp like,
“If you use Baroes software, Bacula will sue you” and
“Braching is bad for open source”.
Do you have URLs for that? I didn't see any of
that from the Bacula project.
—
Dan Langille
http://langille.org/
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