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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="html-manual/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="html-manual/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 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 <b>Bacula</b> is restricted to software systems
that agree exactly with the program presented here. 
