Last revision: 21 May 2017
Bacula is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License, version
3.0 as published by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. ("AGPLv3").
Additional Terms on the work licensed herein, pursuant to Section 7 of
Affero General Public License are as follows:
1. The name Bacula is a registered trademark of Kern Sibbald, and Kern
Sibbald hereby declines to grant a trademark license to "Bacula"
pursuant to AGPLv3, Section 7(e) without a separate agreement with Kern
Sibbald.
2. Pursuant to AGPLv3, Section 7(a), in addition to the warranty and
liability disclaimers already found in AGPLv3, the copyright holders
specifically disclaim any liability for accusations of patent
infringement by any third party.
3. Pursuant to AGPLv3, Section 7(b), the portions of the file AUTHORS that
are deemed to be specified reasonable legal notices and/or author
attributions shall be preserved in redistribution of source code and/or
modifications thereof. Furthermore, when the following notice appears in
a source code file, it must be preserved when source code is conveyed
and/or propagated:
Bacula(R) - The Network Backup Solution
Copyright (C) 2000-2017 Kern Sibbald
The original author of Bacula is Kern Sibbald, with contributions
from many others, a complete list can be found in the file AUTHORS.
You may use this file and others of this release according to the
license defined in the LICENSE file, which includes the Affero General
Public License, v3.0 ("AGPLv3") and some additional permissions and
terms pursuant to its AGPLv3 Section 7.
This notice must be preserved when any source code is conveyed
and/or propagated.
Bacula(R) is a registered trademark of Kern Sibbald.
Additional Permissions on the work licensed herein, pursuant to Section 7 of
AGPLv3 are as follows:
1. As a special exception to the AGPLv3, the copyright holders give
permission to link the code of its release of Bacula with the OpenSSL
project's "OpenSSL" library (or with modified versions of it that use the
same license as the "OpenSSL" library), and distribute the linked
executables. You must follow the requirements of AGPLv3 in all respects
for all of the code used other than "OpenSSL".
2. As a special exception to the AGPLv3, the copyright holders give
permission to link the code of its release of the Bacula Win32 File daemon
with the Microsoft supplied Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) libraries and
distribute the linked executables. You must follow the requirements of
the AGPLv3 in all respects for all of the code used other than for the
Microsoft VSS code.
If you want to fork Bacula, please read the file LICENSE-FAQ.
The copyright for certain source files may include in addition to what is
listed above the following copyright:
Copyright (C) 2000-2014 Free Software Foundation Europe e.V.
The copyright on the Baculum code is:
Copyright (C) 2013-2017 Marcin Haba
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