Re: [Bacula-devel] Making Bacula known to more people

[Kern S. <ke...@si...>]

Hello,

I'm not sure exactly what "authority" you need. Bacula is GPL software
(for the most part -- some is LGPL and some is Public Domain). Thus
anyone can distribute it under the GPL license, and I have no problems
if you or anyone else helps to get Bacula properly indexed and
referenced by the various sites.

If you are hesitating because you are not the author or something, OK, I
understand. If you send me the *exact* link and what I need to do, I'll
be happy to fill out a few forms, but as noted above, I think anyone can
do it.

By the way, though they can do what they want within the GPL, I would
*prefer* that other organizations either mirror the SourceForge files or
use links to Source Forge. Otherwise, they tend to copy the software and
do not update to the latest releases, which can create a situation where
users are unknowingly using outdated software.

Thanks again for your efforts.

Best regards, Kern



On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 10:40, Michel Meyers wrote:
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> Hello,
> 
> I've always wondered why everybody seems to know Amanda but most people have
> never heard of Bacula. Part of the problem seems to be that most search
> engines (Google in particular) seem to ignore it when doing standard queries
> (like 'linux backup', 'open source backup', ...) so right now I'm trying to
> improve it's ranking by getting it linked on more sites like Freshmeat, ....
> 
> I noticed that Bacula isn't listed on Tucows
> (http://linuxberg.chello.at/backup_default.html, other stuff like Amanda,
> Arkeia, cpio & co is listed there) but when trying to register it the form
> said that I was actually granting them permission to distributed it
> (something I can't do because it's not mine). Would somebody with the
> necessary authority be willing to sign it up there?
> 
> I also submitted links to dmoz.org, linuxdownloads.org, icewalk.com and
> linux.org (the ones where I could easily put it a submission). Hopefully
> that will attact some people to the site.
> 
> Greetings,
>           Michel
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