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Bacula Copyright, Trademark, and Licenses

There are a number of different licenses that are used in Bacula. If you have a printed copy of this manual, the details of each of the licenses referred to in this chapter can be found in the online version of the manual at http://www.baculasystems.com.

Bacula Systems

This manual and the associated code is the Enterprise version of Bacula. It is not open source or licensed under the AGPLv3 as is the Bacula community source code. Bacula Enterprise software is proprietary.

It is possible that some of it may still be marked as copyright Free Software Foundation Europe e.V. by error, but due to the dual copyright, for these purposes it should be considered copyright Bacula Systems SA with All Rights Reserved. In addition, there are parts which are copyright Bacula Systems SA, and parts which contain Bacula Systems' trademarks.

All source code listed under Copyright Bacula Systems SA as well as all code falling under the dual license (see above) is available only to users with a valid Bacula Systems subscription agreement, and may not be redistributed without explicit written permission from Bacula Systems SA.

Portions may be copyrighted by other people. These files are released under different licenses which are compatible with the Bacula Enterprise license.

Trademarks

The name Bacula Systems(R) and associated logos as well as other trademarks are trademarks of Bacula Systems SA. Absent a written agreement or other express permission, Bacula Systems SA does not allow third parties to use its trademarks. Absent such a written trademark license from Bacula Systems, a third party does not have the right to distribute anything (code, binaries, ...) containing Bacula Systems trademarks.

Bacula® is a registered trademark of Kern Sibbald.

LGPL

Some of the Bacula library source code is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License. This permits third parties to use these parts of our code in their proprietary programs to interface to Bacula.

Public Domain

Some of the Bacula code, or code that Bacula references, has been released to the public domain. E.g. md5.c, SQLite.

Fiduciary License Agreement

Developers who have contributed significant changes to the Bacula code should have signed a Fiduciary License Agreement (FLA), which guarantees them the right to use the code they have developed, and also ensures that the Free Software Foundation Europe (and thus the Bacula project and Bacula Systems) has the rights to the code. This Fiduciary License Agreement is found on the Bacula web site at:

http://www.bacula.org/en/FLA-bacula.en.pdf

and if you are submitting code, you should fill it out then sent to:

Kern Sibbald
Cotes-de-Montmoiret 9
1012 Lausanne
Switzerland

When you send in such a complete document, please notify me: kern at sibbald dot com.

Disclaimer

NO WARRANTY

BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.

IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.