Hello Arno, Thanks for your comments. Please see below for my responses:
On Saturday 04 November 2006 22:42, Arno Lehmann wrote: > 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... Yes, this is not a "secret" list so the information will go out, but hopefully no one will post it to a public news site until after their announcement (in the next week if I am not mistaken). > > > 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 :-) Yes, that is how I see it too. > > > 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. The LICENSE will not be changed, only the copyright holder, so Bacula will continue to be distributed under GPL version 2 + a few additions that are specified in the LICENSE file. When GPL version 3 is released, we'll take a look at whether or not we want to use it (with input from Bacula users, of course). > > > 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! Thanks. I enjoyed them a lot. I'm back home, but will need a few days to recuperate and re-adjust to the cool weather ... :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
