Comment 1 for bug 1280149

Although it is true that the Bacula git repo has not been updated for some time,
there is a good reason, for more information, please see:

  http://www.bacula.org -> News

There is indeed a fork of Bacula, but that fork has only *one* former Bacula
developer. Although, like other open source projects, developers come and
go, I have been contacted by a number of former and current Bacula
developers and they all remain with Bacula. I would appreciate it if
people who make incorrect statements such as "Most of the
devlopers [sic] switched to the Bareos" would take the time to investigate
or simply look at the Bacula website before making such comments.

You should realize that the Bareos fork has some serious problems,
including copyright violations and alleged theft of proprietary code, so
though anyone is free to download and use the Bareos release, you
you will be downloading code that may contain code that Bareos
has no right to release.

On the other hand, Bacula's copyright is held by the Free Software
Foundation, Europe, and I can assure you that all code in Bacula is
used by written permission. Bacula has been under development
for 14 years now and will continue so in the future at a pace that
is faster than any fork that is created by one person in secret
over a 3 year period.

There will be another release of Bacula in the March-April time frame,
which will have a lot of new features, many planned well before the
fork. If you are the interested in the saga of the Bareos
fork, please see the new Bacula website (under development) at:

   http://blog.bacula.org

Kern Sibbald
Bacula Project Manager