>>>>> On Fri, 23 May 2014 17:01:12 +0100, Alan Brown said:
> 
> 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.

Do you mean something like "copyright holder" here rather than "original
software author"?


> 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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