On Thursday 12 July 2007 16:05, Michel Meyers wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > I'm glad you like the idea. I am thinking about doing the same thing for > > all the Bacula binaries. > > > > Any company, University, or government would have to purchase the > > binaries (or build them for themselves). Any individual or charitable > > organization could download the binaries for free. Any company that had > > contributed to the Bacula project could download the binaries for free a > > number of times determined by their contribution, but at least once. > > Revenues received from this would be used to employ developers to produce > > some of the high-end features that we need. Obviously, the source will > > continue be fully available for anyone to build for themselves. > > Sounds pretty good, the question is: How will Linux distributions be > handled (ie, will there still be Debian packages or will they be removed)?
If I remember right, there are a few old Debian packages loaded on Source Forge, but for the most part they are now released directly by Debian (there are also packages for Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Mephis, and SUSE). I don't imagine any of those distributions would change their packaging. I don't envision removing any older packages -- possibly the beta packages would be removed though. If this is viable and does not create too much controversy (the price would be *very* modest). I could see adding binary releases for a lot of different distros (Solaris, HP, FreeBSD, ...) The idea is to not to interfere with any current distro, but to provide a service and alternatives for the enterprise environment. Regards, Kern > > Greetings, > Michel > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-devel mailing list > Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
