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key: bacula-exception
short_name: Bacula exception to AGPL 3.0
name: Bacula exception to AGPL 3.0
category: Copyleft Limited
owner: Bacula
notes: composite
is_exception: yes
spdx_license_key: LicenseRef-scancode-bacula-exception
other_urls:
    - http://www.gnu.org/licenses/
minimum_coverage: 70
ignorable_copyrights:
    - Copyright (c) 2000-2017 Kern Sibbald
ignorable_holders:
    - Kern Sibbald
---

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.