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[Kevin Mizzi]

Dear All

Do you consider Cobian backup 11 Gravity as free software?

Thanks
Kevin

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[Peter B.]

Post by Kevin Mizzi
Do you consider Cobian backup 11 Gravity as free software?

A link to its license would be nice... :)

Regards,
Pb

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[Sam Liddicott]

Post by Kevin Mizzi
Dear All
Do you consider Cobian backup 11 Gravity as free software?

Is it even software? It sounds more like a science fiction gravity
replacement for space cruisers.

Sam

[Allan Irving]

Hi,

It is released under the Mozilla Public License which to the best of my
knowledge is GPL compatible and is FSF approved.

Post by Kevin Mizzi
Dear All
Do you consider *Cobian backup 11 Gravity* as free software?
Thanks
Kevin

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[David Gerard]

MPL v1 wasn't, MPL v2 is. (LibreOffice uses MPL v2.)

Post by Allan Irving
Hi,
It is released under the Mozilla Public License which to the best of my
knowledge is GPL compatible and is FSF approved.

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Do you consider Cobian backup 11 Gravity as free software?
Thanks
Kevin

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Post by Allan Irving
Hi,
It is released under the Mozilla Public License which to the best of my
knowledge is GPL compatible and is FSF approved.

"However, with version 9 the author of Cobian Backup decided to switch
back to a completely closed source model."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobian_Backup
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[Markus Fischer]

Hi

Post by Allan Irving
It is released under the Mozilla Public License which to the best
of my knowledge is GPL compatible and is FSF approved.

I do not think this is Free Software -look here:
http://www.cobiansoft.com/forsale.htm

Markus

[Massimo Barbieri]

Post by Markus Fischer
http://www.cobiansoft.com/forsale.htm

Hi,
I wrote to Luis Cobian, the developer of Cobian Backup, a couple of
years ago asking him to publish his software with a GPL License and take
advantages from the use of a free license. Unfotunately this is the
answer I got....
Ciao,
Max


-------- Messaggio originale --------
Oggetto: Re: Cobian Backup with GNU GPL
Data: Mon, 7 May 2012 14:24:09 +0200
Mittente: Luis Cobian <******@cobiansoft.com>
Organizzazione: CobianSoft
A: Massimo Barbieri <massimo at fsfe.org>


Hello Massimo,

There is an Open Source (MPL license) available (version 8) on Source
Forge . Unfortunately the community did nothing for it and no
actualizations of it saw the light of the day.

Regards

Post by Markus Fischer
Hi Luis!
My name is Massimo Barbieri and I am an Italian fellow of the Free
Software Foundation Europe. I use your Cobian Backup at work, since a
lot of years, in all my clients and I would like to thank you very much
because Cobian Backup is absolutely great!
I also would like to suggest you to change the license of Cobian Backup
in order to make it a Free Software[1]. You already give to your users
the possibility to use, to copy and to distribute the software, but not
the the possibility to modify the software.
Giving to the users the opportunity to study and modify the source code
of your software you will benefit from the contributions of wide
community of developers and Cobian Backup will become even better. The
GNU General Public License[2] is written both to assure users freedom,
and to protect developers.
Please, if you can, take it in consideration and don't hesitate to write
me if you have any question about Free Software,
Ciao ad thanks again!
Massimo
1. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
2. http://gplv3.fsf.org/

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[Michal Docekal]

Hi,

according to Wikipedia, only version 8 was available under MPL. Version
11 seems to be "freeware", ergo non-free software. Also, the source code
is not available to users. In fact, the original developer recenlty
sold the source code to another person.

Regards,
Michal


Dne Fri, 20 Jun 2014 13:36:11 +0100

Post by Allan Irving
Hi,
It is released under the Mozilla Public License which to the best of
my knowledge is GPL compatible and is FSF approved.

Post by Kevin Mizzi
Dear All
Do you consider *Cobian backup 11 Gravity* as free software?
Thanks
Kevin