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On 03/10/2014 10:58 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Olliver Schinagl: > >> How long of a delay would be acceptable? This is not a case where one >> would try to circumvent the release or anything. The intention is to >> release everything as expected, it is not used as some con to not >> release things as needed. > Of course it is. Why have a legal review if it never can block a > source release? > > As Bruce said, you have to to prepare the source code release as part > of the release process for the binaries. > > There have been cases where the FSF has approved a delay in publishing > source code. The FSFE has entered a strange licensing deal with Bacula > Systems. The licensing deal with Bacula Systems has nothing directly to do with delay in publishing source code. It is perhaps unusual (or strange as you say), because Bacula Systems holds a dual license to the source code basically because I am the original author and have FLAs from all the contributors. Though there are a number of points, for me, the main point of the license is that Bacula Systems, because I believe in open source, agrees to give all code it writes that is not encumbered by 3rd party proprietary licenses (example Oracle plugin) to the community within a five year period. So Bacula Systems though it is an "open core" company has made a very strong commitment to support the Bacula community version. Disclaimer: the FSFE does not encourage the open core business model. End Disclaimer. I personally believe that other open core companies might be willing to make similar agreements, so they could be encouraged to have a business model that is somewhere between open source and open core, which could significantly increase the amount of open source code. Best regards, Kern Sibbald Bacula Project Manager, CTO Bacula Systems > But the gist is that you need an additional agreement, there > is an expectation that you can't do it with the plain GPL (although > counsel to various companies in the Android sphere thinks it's okay). >
