From 4b468e0e80e442d319fe0b1733e4380df86235ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kern Sibbald Date: Sun, 21 May 2017 18:14:23 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add forking info to LICENSE and LICENSE-FAQ --- bacula/LICENSE | 4 +++- bacula/LICENSE-FOSS | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/bacula/LICENSE b/bacula/LICENSE index b6cb222218..a002c9b5ef 100644 --- a/bacula/LICENSE +++ b/bacula/LICENSE @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ - Last revision: 03 April 2017 + Last revision: 21 May 2017 Bacula is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3.0 as published by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. ("AGPLv3"). @@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ AGPLv3 are as follows: the AGPLv3 in all respects for all of the code used other than for the Microsoft VSS code. +If you want to fork Bacula, please read the file LICENSE-FAQ. + The copyright for certain source files may include in addition to what is listed above the following copyright: diff --git a/bacula/LICENSE-FOSS b/bacula/LICENSE-FOSS index d18f7bcd72..6ed18585d4 100644 --- a/bacula/LICENSE-FOSS +++ b/bacula/LICENSE-FOSS @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ FOSS Licenses used in Bacula + Update 21 May 2017 Note: This file corresponds to the Bacula Community (bacula.org) license. @@ -15,6 +16,25 @@ give your fork another name. You are not required to remove all 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. + =================================== What follows is information from the authors of the code: @@ -23,7 +43,6 @@ License: 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 -- 2.39.5