There are a number of different licenses that are used in
Bacula.
GPL
The vast bulk of the code is released under the
GNU General Public License version 2.
Most of this code is copyrighted:
Copyright (C) 2000-2009 Free Software Foundation Europe e.V.
Portions may be copyrighted by other people (ATT, the
Free Software Foundation, ...).
LGPL
Some of the Bacula library source code is released under the
GNU Lesser General Public License.
This permits third parties to use these parts of our code in
their proprietary programs to interface to Bacula.
Public Domain
Some of the Bacula code has been released to the public domain.
E.g. md5.c, SQLite.
Trademark
Bacula®is a registered trademark of Kern Sibbald.
We have done this to ensure that any variant of Bacula will
be exactly compatible with the program that we have released.
The use of the name Bacula is restricted to software systems
that agree exactly with the program presented here.
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