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Re: [Bacula-users] Request for help
2015-02-01 19:33:59
Dear Bacula Users,
I'll try to express my impartial opinion here, as a lawyer with a little knowledge of intelectual property, hoping that anyone gets mad at me and to settle this. =) Bacula is licensed by GNU Affero General Public License version 3, witch requires code modifications to be licensed with the same way, even though it doesn't obligate the modifier to publish it. However, MOST of the code developed by Bacula Enterprise are in the form of Plugins (Vmware, Databases, etc.) and GUI (bweb), that CAN'T be considered derivations / modifications of the original Bacula Source code. In fact anyone can develop those accessories, like Webacula, Reportula, Webmin, etc. Some of them, in fact, use different programming language, so there is no way to contest the legality of those binaries. BE can license those in any way they want. Regards, ==============================================================================
Heitor Medrado de Faria - LPIC-III | ITIL-F ===============================================================================
De: "Ben Erridge" <bene AT cyberoblivion DOT com>
Para: "Dan Langille" <dan AT langille DOT org>
Cc: "bacula-users" <bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Enviadas: Domingo, 1 de fevereiro de 2015 21:11:05
Assunto: Re: [Bacula-users] Request for help
The whole paraphrasing, "Bacula will sue you" I saw directly on the Bacula Systems site.. I 'm sure it was worded a bit more PC. But it threatened the possibility of legal action against anyone using the bareos software. The whole branching/forking is bad I read many places including backups.org, I think Kern's blog, and also in a power point presentation I believe used by Bacula Systems for some conference in Europe last year. I am not spending my evening finding the links. You certainly have every right to find me full of shit and disregard my opinion.
> On Feb 1, 2015, at 2:46 PM, Ben Erridge <bene AT cyberoblivion DOT com> wrote:
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> I doubt my opinion holds much weight either way but if you want my opinion here it is;
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> As anyone would expect both sides say the other one is lying about many things. I can only assume, at this point, the truth lies somewhere in between.
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> With that said I think this lawsuit only hurts Bacula. I never even heard of Bareos until this lawsuit came up. Then I started reading about it all over the place. Including a bunch of nonsense out of the Bacula camp like, “If you use Baroes software, Bacula will sue you” and “Braching is bad for open source”. Do you have URLs for that? I didn't see any of that from the Bacula project. —
Dan Langille
http://langille.org/
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