John Goerzen wrote: > Can you all take a look at the below new license? I took a quick look > and it looks good to me. This revised license looks DFSG-free to me. One note, though: > 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. [...] > Certain parts of the Bacula software are licensed by their > copyright holder(s) under the GPL with no modifications. These > software files are clearly marked as such. If those parts don't carry the exception for non-GPLed libraries such as OpenSSL, then Bacula as a whole does not have an exception for non-GPLed libraries such as OpenSSL, so distribution linked to OpenSSL would violate the GPL on those portions without the exception. This doesn't make Bacula non-free, but it does make it impossible to distribute Bacula compiled to use OpenSSL or similarly-incompatible libraries. - Josh Triplett
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