FOSS Licenses used in Bacula
+ Update 21 May 2017
Note: This file corresponds to the Bacula Community (bacula.org) license.
references to Bacula in the source code or "fair uses" in the
documentation.
+Forking Bacula:
+Bacula is Free Software/Open Source Software and as such you are
+permitted to fork it and/or use parts of it. However, if you fork
+Bacula or you use more than one or two lines of code from it, you
+must respect the copyright which requires you to maintain the headers
+containing the Copyright information intact on any files which you
+use. If you take more than a couple of lines of code, you are required
+to add the Bacula Copyright to your code (see the file: LICENSE or any
+header of a file for what is necessary).
+
+If you have previously forked Bacula, please be aware that the license
+on the current code has most likely changed since your fork, and you
+must respect the new license.
+
+If you are thinking that this requirement to maintain the license intact is
+unusual or not open source, I would like to point out that most open source
+licenses require this. One simple example is the BSD 2-clause license,
+which is widely used, and which Bacula uses for most of the script files.
+
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What follows is information from the authors of the code:
To the best of our knowledge, all code used in Bacula, which is
copyrighted by a third party, has licenses that are compatible.
-
Intellectual Property rights:
Recipient understands that although each Contributor to Bacula grants
the licenses to its Contributions set forth herein, no assurances are
However, the Bacula Community binary releases consist of
files, with few source files (mostly scripts), and some of the FOSS licenses
-such such as the BSD (Berkeley Software Development) require publication of
+such as the BSD (Berkeley Software Development) require publication of
the copyright notices if the code is released in binary format. For example
certain copyright notifications are simplifed such as:
-# Copyright (C) 2000-2015 Kern Sibbald
+# Copyright (C) 2000-2017 Kern Sibbald
# License: BSD 2-Clause; see file LICENSE-FOSS
This license corresponds to the following:
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-Copyright (C) 2000-2015 Kern Sibbald
+Copyright (C) 2000-2017 Kern Sibbald
License: BSD 2-Clause; see file LICENSE-FOSS
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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The release of binaires mentioned above is covered in point 2 (above) of
-license. This file contains a list of all such licenses.
+license. This file contains a non-exhaustive list of such licenses.
Database scripts (src/cats):
-# Copyright (C) 2000-2015 Kern Sibbald
+# Copyright (C) 2000-2017 Kern Sibbald
# License: BSD 2-Clause; see file LICENSE-FOSS
Translations (po):
-# Copyright (C) 2000-2015 Kern Sibbald
+# Copyright (C) 2000-2017 Kern Sibbald
# License: BSD 2-Clause; see file LICENSE-FOSS
# Copyright (C) 2010 Inteos Sp. z o.o.
-# Copyright (C) 2010-2014 Kern Sibbald <kern@sibbald.com>
+# Copyright (C) 2010-2017 Kern Sibbald <kern@sibbald.com>
# License: BSD 2-Clause
# Copyright (C) 2005-2006 Free Software Foundation Europe e.V.
This man page document is released under the BSD 2-Clause license.
Update datbase (updatedb):
-# Copyright (C) 2000-2015 Kern Sibbald
+# Copyright (C) 2000-2017 Kern Sibbald
# License: BSD 2-Clause; see file LICENSE-FOSS
Scripts (scripts):
-# Copyright (C) 2000-2015 Kern Sibbald
+# Copyright (C) 2000-2017 Kern Sibbald
# License: BSD 2-Clause; see file LICENSE-FOSS
Platforms (platforms):
-# Copyright (C) 2000-2015 Kern Sibbald
+# Copyright (C) 2000-2017 Kern Sibbald
# License: BSD 2-Clause; see file LICENSE-FOSS
Libraries (src/lib):
You can contact the author at :
- LZ4 homepage : http://fastcompression.blogspot.com/p/lz4.html
- - LZ4 source repository : http://code.google.com/p/lz4/
+ - LZ4 source repository : https://github.com/lz4/lz4
*/
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