I am not an expert but I doubt that you can just relicense a software as you
like.
Heitor Faria <[email protected]> schrieb am Dienstag, 28. April 2026 um
18:59:
> That trap is easy to solve. Fork the bacula-fd code in AGPL and change that
> plugin_license part. ð
>
> Atenciosamente,
>
> Heitor faria (Miami)
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>
> Em ter., 28 de abr. de 2026, 11:52, RadosÅaw Korzeniewski
> <[email protected]> escreveu:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> wt., 28 kwi 2026 o 17:14 Heitor Faria <[email protected]> napisaÅ(a):
>>
>>> Hello AFM,
>>>
>>> Thank you for writing, though I will be direct: this message contains
>>> several factual inaccuracies, and I would like to correct them for the
>>> list's benefit.
>>>
>>> On legal challenges: No legal concerns have been raised in this thread that
>>> apply to my software. The prior discussion was about the plugin_license
>>> string required by the Bacula FD API â a technical detail I have already
>>> addressed.
>>
>> This is not a technical detail, but a valid field describing the proper
>> license for the whole product.
>>
>>> That is not a legal challenge; it is a configuration value.
>>
>> For the Bacula Community you can't legally load the plugin which is not
>> AGPLv3 licensed. You can provide external tools as "full copyright", i.e. I
>> prepared the proprietary (open-source version is available too) tool -
>> IBAdmin which manages Bacula Community without any plugin, just with simple
>> cli execs and sql queries.
>>
>>> The plugins are proprietary commercial software. The documentation is
>>> public. Pre-built packages (RPM, DEB, Windows installer) are available for
>>> evaluation. That has been consistent throughout this discussion.
>>
>> If you distribute this software, or provide services based on a modified
>> version of it over a network, you have an obligation to provide the
>> corresponding source code to the users, unless you have a separate license
>> that permits otherwise.
>>
>> I hope this is clear.--
>>
>> RadosÅaw Korzeniewski
>> [email protected]
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