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
the copyright license set forth in the LICENSE file..
Notices:
-The Bacula community version uses a certain number of files that have FOSS
-(Free or Open Software) licenses. Most 3rd party FOSS licenses require no
-notification so they are not included here.
-
-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 the
-copyright notices if the code is released in binary format. For example
+The Bacula community version uses a certain number of files that have
+FOSS (Free or Open Software) licenses. Many of these files come from and are
+identical to the Bacula community code. Most 3rd party FOSS licenses require
+no notification so they are not included here.
+
+However, the Bacula Community binary releases consist of
+files, with few source files (mostly scripts), and some of the FOSS licenses
+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) 2000-2016 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) 2000-2016 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) 2000-2016 Kern Sibbald
+# Copyright (C) 2000-2017 Kern Sibbald
# License: BSD 2-Clause; see file LICENSE-FOSS
Scripts (scripts):
-# Copyright (C) 2000-2016 Kern Sibbald
+# Copyright (C) 2000-2017 Kern Sibbald
# License: BSD 2-Clause; see file LICENSE-FOSS
Platforms (platforms):
-# Copyright (C) 2000-2016 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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