Re: [BackupPC-users] Copyright protection

Yeah, nothing I've suggested was in regards to recommending a license change. That's the exact thing I would want to avoid. The goal from my perspective is to protect all the work Craig has done, while allowing for outside contributions without fear that someone could do something evil down the road. My last point was if the GPL alone is sufficient for the scenario we were discussing with employees of companies making contributions, perfect! If not, what else can/should be done?

David

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 5:50 PM, Stefan Peter <s_peter AT swissonline DOT ch> wrote:

Dear David Cramblett

On 20.05.2016 01:28, David Cramblett wrote:
> Stefan - Based on all this discussion, is your recommendation the GPL
> lic alone is enough, and we don't need anything additional?

The license is given, more or less. If Craig and the other contributors
do not agree to a license change, there is nothing anyone else can do.
But I do not see any reason to change the license, so I'd suggest to
forget the whole license discussion for now.

A contributor agreement, roughly cut along the one of the Linux Kernel
would be the next item on my wish list.

In order to become a mature, well functioning open source project, there
are a lot of other requirements, as you well may know. Bit I'm to tired
right now to go into details, I might miss something crucial.

>
>
> All - Does anyone know what the situation is with this Zamanda site
> http://backuppc.com/ ?

I have no idea, why don't you contact them and ask? But be polite, they
actually may be the driving force behind the resurrection of the
BackupPC development, just using their private eMail instead of a
@zamanda one.

Another issue may be backupcentral.com. They feed our mailing list into
their forum (probably displaying adds and monetizing on that, but I
could not be bothered to have a closer look) and the quality of input
this mailing list gets from them "leaves something to be desired"
normally. I do not remember any constructive input from their site, but
I may be wrong, as usual. But this situation opens the question for me:
What shall we do with pilot fish?

With kind regards

Stefan Peter

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