That trap is easy to solve. Fork the bacula-fd code in AGPL and change that
plugin_license part. 😁

Atenciosamente,

Heitor faria (Miami)
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Em ter., 28 de abr. de 2026, 11:52, Radosław Korzeniewski <
[email protected]> escreveu:

> Hello,
>
> wt., 28 kwi 2026 o 17:14 Heitor Faria <[email protected]> napisał(a):
>
>> Hello AFM,
>>
>> Thank you for writing, though I will be direct: this message contains
>> several factual inaccuracies, and I would like to correct them for the
>> list's benefit.
>>
>> On legal challenges: No legal concerns have been raised in this thread
>> that apply to my software. The prior discussion was about the
>> plugin_license string required by the Bacula FD API — a technical detail I
>> have already addressed.
>>
>
> This is not a technical detail, but a valid field describing the proper
> license for the whole product.
>
>
>> That is not a legal challenge; it is a configuration value.
>>
>
> For the Bacula Community you can't legally load the plugin which is not
> AGPLv3 licensed. You can provide external tools as "full copyright", i.e. I
> prepared the proprietary (open-source version is available too) tool -
> IBAdmin which manages Bacula Community without any plugin, just with simple
> cli execs and sql queries.
>
> The plugins are proprietary commercial software. The documentation is
>> public. Pre-built packages (RPM, DEB, Windows installer) are available for
>> evaluation. That has been consistent throughout this discussion.
>>
>
> If you distribute this software, or provide services based on a modified
> version of it over a network, you have an obligation to provide the
> corresponding source code to the users, unless you have a separate license
> that permits otherwise.
>
> I hope this is clear.
> --
> Radosław Korzeniewski
> [email protected]
>
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