Bacula

It comes by night and sucks the vital essence from your computers.

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Bacula Copyright, Trademark, and Licenses

There are a number of different licenses that are used in Bacula.

GPL

The vast bulk of the code is released under the GNU General Public License version 2. Most of this code is copyrighted: Copyright (C) 2000-2003 Kern Sibbald and John Walker.

Portions may be copyrighted by other people (ATT, the Free Software Foundation, ...).

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 has been released to the public domain. E.g. md5.c, SQLite.

Trademark

Bacula®is a registered trademark of Kern Sibbald and John Walker.

We have done this to ensure that any variant of Bacula will be exactly compatible with the program that we have released. The use of the name Bacula is restricted to software systems that agree exactly with the program presented here.