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License:
-For the most part, Bacula is licensed under the GPL version 2 or greater
-and any code that is Copyright Kern Sibbald and John Walker with the GPL
+For the most part, Bacula is licensed under the GPL version 2
+and any code that is Copyright Kern Sibbald and John Walker or
+Copyright Kern Sibbald (after November 2004) with the GPL
indication is so licensed, but with the following four additions:
Linking:
-Bacula may be linked with any libraries permitted under
-the GPL, or with any non-GPLed libraries, including OpenSSL, that
-are required for its proper functioning, providing the source
-code of those non-GPLed libraries is non-proprietary and freely available.
-
-Termination for Patent Action:
-In addition to the termination clause specified in the GPL, this
-license shall terminate automatically and you may no longer
-exercise any of the rights granted to you by this license as of
-the date you commence an action, including a cross-claim or
-counterclaim, against any licensor of GPL software alleging that
-the software infringes an intellectual property right or a
-patent. Special dispensation from or delay to the execution of
-this clause may be possible by applying directly to the license
-owner of this software. Such a dispensation or delay is valid
-only in writing and signed by the one or more of the license
-holders.
+Bacula may be linked with any libraries permitted under the GPL,
+or with any non-GPLed libraries, including OpenSSL, that are
+required for its proper functioning, providing the source code of
+those non-GPLed libraries is non-proprietary and freely
+available to the public.
IP rights:
Recipient understands that although each Contributor grants the
Code falling under the above conditions will be marked as follows:
- Copyright (C) 2000-2004 Kern Sibbald and John Walker
+ Copyright (C) 2000-2006 Kern Sibbald
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+ version 2 as amended with additional clauses defined in the
+ file LICENSE in the main source directory.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
- General Public License for more details.
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ the file LICENSE for additional details.
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
- License along with this program; if not, write to the Free
- Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston,
- MA 02111-1307, USA.
+
+Windows:
+Certain source code used to build the Windows version of the Bacula
+File daemon is copyrighted and or trademarked by Microsoft and may
+contain Microsoft intellectual property (examples: Microsoft VC++, the
+source to the VSS libraries, the Microsoft C runtime libraries). As
+such we cannot and do not distribute that software. We are permitted
+however to distribute Bacula in binary form with the necessary Microsoft
+libraries linked in.
+
+You may obtain the parts that we cannot distribute as follows. The
+Microsoft compiler available for purchase, and Microsoft provides a free
+version of the compiler. The source code and libraries are available for
+download from Microsoft public Web servers. We have documented in the
+src/win32 directory the URLs from which we obtained the library source, and
+how we build the Windows File daemon and many users have succeeded in doing
+so themselves. Our intention is to respect as closely as possible Open
+Source practices while maintaining full respect for proprietary and
+copyrighted code.
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-The entire GPL is reproduced in the html manual distributed with this
-source and can also be found online on the GNU web site as well
-as at www.bacula.org.
+The entire GPL is reproduced in the manuals distributed with the
+Bacula documentation and can also be found online on the GNU web site
+as well as at www.bacula.org. You may also obtain a copy of the
+GPL (or LGPL) by writing to: Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
+
+Certain parts of the Bacula software are licensed by their
+copyright holder(s) under the GPL with no modifications. These
+software files are clearly marked as such.
-In addition to the GPL, there are parts of Bacula that are licensed
-under the LGPL so that they may be used in proprietary code to interface
-with Bacula.
+There are parts of Bacula that are licensed under the LGPL so
+that they may be used in proprietary code to interface with
+Bacula.
Finally there are parts of Bacula that are in the public domain.
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