Dear all,

I'm supporting the open source compliance verification for a 
closed-source software product that aims to adopt an older version of 
Bacula that is under GPL 2.

To clarify, the Bacula source code is not modified in any manner or 
form. The product launches the Bacula binaries through a cron task on 
daily basis to perform the daily backup and an alarm message is raised 
when case the logs show that something went wrong.

 From my perspective this becomes an ambiguous case of compliance since a 
part of the functionality required for the software product to fulfill 
is provided by a software component under GPL terms.

What is your opinion?

Does the described usage counts as a GPL compliant usage of the GPL 
Bacula within a closed-source system?



With kind regards,
Nuno Brito


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