John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kern believes that he must remove the explicit OpenSSL exemption from > the license in order to be fully GPL-compliant, and it appears that FSFE > agrees.
I just read the contents of /usr/share/doc/bacula-director-sqlite/copyright I have reproduced it below for debian-legal. The Linking section, which is needed for linking with OpenSSL, is not a problem for GPL-compatibility. The other parts may or may not be a problem, and indeed seem superfluous, but all that is needed is the Linking section. Cheers, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This package was debianized by Jose Luis Tallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sun, 19 Oct 2003 14:36:45 +0200 and is now maintained by John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. It was downloaded from http://www.bacula.org Upstream Authors: Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and John Walker. Trademark: The name Bacula is a registered trademark. =================================== License: For the most part, Bacula is licensed under the GPL version 2 and any code that is Copyright Kern Sibbald and John Walker or Copyright Kern Sibbald (after November 2004) with the GPL indication is so licensed, but with the following four additions: Linking: Bacula may be linked with any libraries permitted under the GPL, or with any non-GPLed libraries, including OpenSSL, that are required for its proper functioning, providing the source code of those non-GPLed libraries is non-proprietary and freely available to the public. IP rights: Recipient understands that although each Contributor grants the licenses to its Contributions set forth herein, no assurances are provided by any Contributor that the Program does not infringe the patent or other intellectual property rights of any other entity. Each Contributor disclaims any liability to Recipient for claims brought by any other entity based on infringement of intellectual property rights or otherwise. As a condition to exercising the rights and licenses granted hereunder, each Recipient hereby assumes sole responsibility to secure any other intellectual property rights needed, if any. For example, if a third party patent license is required to allow Recipient to distribute the Program, it is Recipient's responsibility to acquire that license before distributing the Program. Copyrights: Each Contributor represents that to its knowledge it has sufficient copyright rights in its Contribution, if any, to grant the copyright license set forth in this Agreement. Code falling under the above conditions will be marked as follows: Copyright (C) 2000-2006 Kern Sibbald This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as amended with additional clauses defined in the file LICENSE in the main source directory. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the the file LICENSE for additional details. Windows: Certain source code used to build the Windows version of the Bacula File daemon is copyrighted and or trademarked by Microsoft and may contain Microsoft intellectual property (examples: Microsoft VC++, the source to the VSS libraries, the Microsoft C runtime libraries). As such we cannot and do not distribute that software. We are permitted however to distribute Bacula in binary form with the necessary Microsoft libraries linked in. You may obtain the parts that we cannot distribute as follows. The Microsoft compiler available for purchase, and Microsoft provides a free version of the compiler. The source code and libraries are available for download from Microsoft public Web servers. We have documented in the src/win32 directory the URLs from which we obtained the library source, and how we build the Windows File daemon and many users have succeeded in doing so themselves. Our intention is to respect as closely as possible Open Source practices while maintaining full respect for proprietary and copyrighted code. On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License and the GNU Lesser General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/.