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<h1>Bacula Copyright, Trademark, and Licenses</h1>
There are a number of different licenses that are used in
Bacula. 
<h2>GPL</h2>
The vast bulk of the code is released under the
<a href="gpl.html">GNU General Public License version 2.</a>
Most of this code is copyrighted: 
Copyright (C) 2000-2003 Kern Sibbald and John Walker.
<p>Portions may be copyrighted by other people (ATT, the
Free Software Foundation, ...).

<h2>LGPL</h2>
Some of the Bacula library source code is released under the
<a href="lesser.html">GNU Lesser General Public License.</a>
This permits third parties to use these parts of our code in
their proprietary programs to interface to Bacula.

<h2>Public Domain</h2>
Some of the Bacula code has been released to the public domain.
E.g. md5.c, SQLite.

<h2>Trademark</h2>
Bacula<sup>&reg;</sup>is a registered trademark of Kern Sibbald and John
Walker.
<p>We have trademarked the Bacula name to ensure that any variant of Bacula will
be exactly compatible with the program that we have released.  
The use of the name <b>Bacula</b> is restricted to software systems
that agree exactly with the program presented here. 

<h2>Disclaimer</h2>
NO WARRANTY
<p>
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.
<p>
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.
<p>


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