I understood the source code licence has already been decided on. I would
expect any prerelease source tarball to use that licence.

Im not exactly 'in touch' with the latest that is going on here, Im just an
opensource user/developer that has used interbase perviously in commercial
developments and would like to do so again in my research based scientific
analysis programs. I wasn't even aware of a current conference - perhaps
someone will make a pleasant announcement. It was just concerned by the press
release on the 28th.

Regards

Mark

Jason Wharton wrote:

> > So how about a "pre-release " source code drop, to quell my and presumably
> > others concerns?
>
> That's a no-can-do. Source is source and it isn't given out until there is
> licensing in place to protect it. In my opinion this would be a very foolish
> thing for Inprise to do.
>
> There are no buyers in the wings. A whole new company is being established
> to take over InterBase. Once this is all in place and the license is truly
> open source then there is no company on earth, Microsoft, Oracle or the
> like, that can take something away that has been rightfully licensed to the
> public.
>
> True after a year or two they could decide to again proceed with a closed
> source version of InterBase but the opened versions will always remain
> opened.
>
> It's gonna happen. Let's at least give them until after the conference to
> start running them through the ringer for missing a deadline.
>
> My $0.02 worth...
>
> Jason Wharton
> CPS - Mesa AZ
> http://www.ibobjects.com
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