Re: An special day for honoring someone who has done a extremely nice job in the open source world

Hello Egoitz,

Thanks for your very kind email with birthday wishes.  I am really 
honored that you call me a mentor, thanks.  I have always done my best 
to produce a high end backup product (though it is a bit complicated) 
that is robust and reliable with all the features needed by the 
community as well as small enterprises.  Though it is sometimes hard, I 
feel that we succeeded in creating a friendly and helpful email list.

Thanks for using Bacula and for your email.

Concerning your plugin:  in general we accept all contributions that are 
useful, follow our current design conditions (in the Developers 
document) and for which we have a signed CAA (copyright assignment 
agreement).  This agreement allows Bacula Systems to use the code, but 
even more important for me, it protect all Bacula users from someone 
introducing code then claiming we are using his proprietary code (this 
is what Bareos attempted to do to Bacula). I can remember only on case 
where we we not able to use the code, and that was code developed by 
UKFast (ISP) and released by the developer without permission.  We we 
never able to get permission to use the code from UKFast.  This code 
implemented quotas.  Instead of integrating unauthorized code, we wrote 
our own simpler and more efficient quota code.  Note, Bareos integrated 
the unauthorized code, so perhaps one day their users may be exposed to 
license problems.

If you finish your code, and you are willing to submit a CAA, then I 
recommend that you submit it to Bacula (Now that I am retired, Eric 
decides exactly what is integrated and what is not).   In my opinion, it 
would be a very nice addition.

I am very pleased that Bacula Systems has agreed to look after 
maintaining the community version and continue adding the Bacula Systems 
new features.  This means that Bacula will be getting better and better 
and continue to adapt to the ever changing IT backup/restore needs.

Thank you very much for recognizing my contributions, and above all 
thank you for using Bacula and developing code for it.  I wish you all 
the best in the future.

Kind regards,
Kern
(Currently in Puerto Rico until May then back to Barcelona).



On 3/21/2022 4:40 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>
> Good morning people :)
>
>
> Today is a special day. Is the birthday of someone now deservedly 
> retired. This person is Kern Sibbald. I had the opportunity of knowing 
> about his birthday, through one nice person in this mailing lists. 
> Kern is much more than a nice codder, who has write a extremely 
> important tool which is the base of most of our backups. At least for 
> me is one of my mentors, one of the persons from which I would like to 
> learn because it has done a nice job with Bacula. For all these 
> reasons, I wanted to say "thank you so much Kern and have an extremely 
> happy birthday!!".
>
> I wanted too, for making the most of this lines, to ask a little gift 
> to Kern :) :). I'm working as some of you know, in building a Bacula 
> pluggin for creating an open source delta encoding plugin for the fd. 
> It would be hugely nice :) :) (as someone told me too in this list) if 
> official Delta plugin of Bacula, could be distributed with the 
> Community source of Bacula. I'll go on writting my own plugin anyway, 
> because I wanted to learn how it works and for being able to customize 
> some of the backups I do here, but it would be really nice to have the 
> Delta plugin as part of the Community edition of this nice piece of 
> software. I had to try :) :) .
>
> Anyway and independently of what Kern decides about the gift I have 
> asked :) :) (I had to try it... mainly after someone encouraged asking 
> it :) :) ), I wanted to emphasize my recognition about Kern's person, 
> due to all his contributions to the open source world. These ideas, 
> anyway, would never change in my mind about you.
>
> So for ending this email, I think there are not more appropiate words 
> for being remarked as the following ones : "Kern, Thank you so much".
>
>
> Cheers :)
>



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