The information is all in the Mozilla licence which you can link to from
www.opensource.org.

The licence itself does not preclude forking. The organisation which forms
the mainstream of development determines the lifestream of the source. The
concern I expressed was that, if the source were released before the
lifestream infrastructure were in place, an immediate fork - prior even to
the full v. 6 releases - could occur. Given a long enough time between the
private review and the official opening, unoffical IB6+ binaries could be
compiled and implemented with the proprietors powerless to do anything
about it.

HB

At 06:39 PM 13-03-00 +1100, you wrote:

>From: "Alan McDonald" <alan@...>
>
>I think I've misunderstood the motzilla license paradigm if you are talking
>about forking. I thought you had to go back to Interbase for them to fork -
>where can I get some info on this?
>Alan
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Helen Borrie [mailto:helebor@...]
> >Sent: Monday, 13 March 2000 9:09
> >To: IBDI@onelist.com
> >Subject: Re: [IBDI] Source under NDA
> >
> >
> >From: Helen Borrie <helebor@...>
> >
> >At 04:28 PM 12-03-00 -0500, you wrote:
> >>From: Ann Harrison <harrison@...>
> >>
> >>
> >> >Why can't the Source code be released under a tempory NDA to
> >build up the
> >> >knowledge base for when the source comes out for real?
> >>
> >>That's and interesting thought and one I'd like to pass back
> >>to the community. Here are the things that need to be done
> >>before the code is released, officially.
> >>
> >> References to licensing must be removed.
> >>
> >> Conditional code for obsolete ports, etc. must be removed.
> >>
> >> The build procedures must be fixed so it will build on
> >> systems other than the ones in Scotts Valley.
> >>
> >>Only the last one will take any significant amount of time.
> >>
> >>Would there be value to a "private release" before the build
> >>procedures were fixed?
> >Yes: I see several benefits -
> >1. the one Dan mentioned, of giving coders a preview of things
> >like coding
> >standards, etc.
> >2. IMMENSE one of convincing people that Inprise isn't stalling with some
> >sinister intent to renege on the open-sourcing
> >3. lets people (e.g. Kylix beta developers, et al.) in on what are going
> >to be the issues when coding tools for IB on the various platforms
> >4. those interested in open source who have given up and gone away will
> >come back before it's too late
> >5. open source developers have a basis on which to organise themselves
> >
> >Caveats
> >1. It will have to be pretty private until the infrastructure for open
> >source development is in place, otherwise IB6 could start life
> >with umpteen
> >out-of-control forks
> >2. There has to be SOME way to make it absolutely clear that it's in
> >preview mode and is NOT open yet. As far as the general open source
> >community is concerned, it has to be known to be still Black Box until the
> >source is officially opened for development
> >
> >I expect there are other issues...like code control/checkout
> >facilities and
> >access to the tools for that.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Helen
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