Thanks for making this clear, and I certainly agree with you.  I wish
more people understood it.  Unfortunately, I don't think Bareos agrees,
which is temporarily causing me a bit of grief.

On 05/23/2014 06:01 PM, Alan Brown wrote:
> On 23/05/14 16:41, Kern Sibbald wrote:
>> Hello Alain,
>>
>> I am in the final stages of preparing for a vacation beginning early
>> tomorrow, so I will get back to you on this next week when I am back.
>> Thanks for the references to the German legal cases, I will read them
>> all (really).
>>
>> One thing I will say is: Bareos believes and has requested the court to
>> order:
>>
>>    GPL == any modifications or additions *must* be made public.
>
> This is true under 2 conditions
>
> 1: You are not the original software author
> _and_
> 2: You are distributing the software to third parties.
>
> Both conditions must be met.
>
> As the original author you have full freedoms to redistribute under 
> any license you see fit and it is perfectly legal/normal to have
> multiple licensing models, even for the same software.
>
> EG MySQL (pre-Oracle days)
>
> GPL for free use
>
> Normal copyright, no redistribution, custom binaries supplied for paid
> support
>
>
>
> The original MySQL people are now at mariadb.org and may be able to
> assist with your case
>
>
> Copyright law is very powerful, giving an author a lot of control over
> his output _and_ over derived works. Stripping attributions and
> claiming original authorship is something that steps into criminal
> ranges (fraud) when money is involved.
>
> Anyone seeking to challenge a copyright would need to have very deep
> pockets, an in-depth knowledge of the law and a very solid case.
>
> My feeling is that Bareos fail on all three counts, as a competent
> lawyer should have told them to settle the case quickly - assuming
> Bareos haven't withheld facts, which would give the lawyer grounds to
> withdraw as soon as he became aware of that issue.
>
>
>
>
>


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