Hi, On 11/4/2006 1:46 PM, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hello, 1 November 2006 > > This contents of this email is for discussion on the Bacula email > list, but not yet a topic for "publication".
Quite hard, regarding the number of list readers and open mailing list archives. But then, this is not really vital, and we're only needing confidentiality for a few weeks... > As you are probably aware, I am planning certain reorganizations > of the Bacula project for a number of reasons. ... Yes. > Several months ago, I met with Georg Greve, the President of > the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE). I learned that > he was in the process of creating the FSFE Freedom Task Force > to work with projects that would like to enter into a fiduciary > license agreement with the FSFE with the objective to offload > the adminstrative (legal) needs of the project to the FSFE > while keeping the project adminstration unchanged. The > Freedom Task Force has been in operation since the beginning > of October with Shane Coughlan heading it up. > > Probably the best explaination of their policy as it relates to > Bacula is described in the "FSFE Fiduciary Licensing Policy", > which I have attached to this email in pdf format. > > A short summary of what I am proposing is: > 1. Transfer the Bacula copyright to the FSFE. > 2. There will be no change in the license, which is defined > in the LICENSE file -- only the copyright holder will > be changed. > 3. FSFE will look after the legal matters of maintaining and, > if necessary, defending the license. > 4. Aside from the copyright assignments for important > contributions, there will be no other changes to the > project resulting from the copyright transfer. > 5. The final transfer of the copyright will occur on or > shortly after the 15th of November and will apply to the > next released version. > 6. The official announcement of the formation of the FSFE > Freedom Task Force, and that Bacula will particpate > in their Fiduciary Licensing will be made at the end > of November. Sounds reasonable. I understand that this is about what you - and probably many others - want, and it keeps you from setting op an appropriate organization yourself. The FSFE gets their project going with a renownded open-source project. Looks like a win-win situation :-) > My belief is that this copyright transfer will be beneficial > to the project in many respects: assure that the source > remains Free Software, ensure that the source is not tied > to any single person, off load most of the legal tasks, That last one is quite important to me. > ... > > If any of you have concerns, comments, or questions, please > do not hesitate to voice them now, either on the Bacula email > lists or directly to me. I always have a hard time working through this (semi-)legal stuff, so I guess others may find important points. One regulation I don't especialy like, though, is the reference to the GPL in "the current version". While I personally like the GPL V. 2, I see some possible problems with the upcoming, new version. Admittedly, I didn't follow the discussion very close, but as far as I understand there are some things planned I don't think right. For that reason I would prefer having Bacula under a GPL verson 2. YMMV, obviously. > I will take all comments > and concerns into consideration and attempt to answer all the > questions. Since I am on vacation and my Internet access is > very limited, some or all my responses may be delayed until > after my return on the 10th of November. Well, enjoy the remains of your holidays! Arno -- IT-Service Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
