On Wednesday 26 April 2006 22:29, Jason Martin wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 10:08:06PM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> > The simple answer concerning using the binary is: yes. I'm not opposed to
> > Bacula being used in commercial applications. However, if you do use it,
> > and you modify the GPL'ed code (not all of which is mine), which probably
> > applies to the binary as well, you are required to make the modifications
> > publicly available or you are in violation of the license. The idea (at
> > least my
>
> I believe the GPL only requires that changes made to the source
> be available to people who use the modified binary.
> See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLRequireSourcePostedPublic
> for a clarification.
I don't interpret the text in the same way you do, probably because it is not
very clearly written. I'm not sure that text reflects what the GPL really
says, but in any case, the text *seems* to say that if you release a modified
binary, the person purchasing the binary may freely distribute it, and anyone
who gets such a redistributed binary has the right to have the source, which
"effectively" says that anyone can have it.
Anyway, it isn't worth arguing about since I try to be as non-restrictive as
possible.
--
Best regards,
Kern
(">
/\
V_V
-------------------------------------------------------
Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security?
Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier
Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo
http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642
_______________________________________________
Bacula-users mailing list
Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
