> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert J. Munro [mailto:rjmunro@...]
> Sent: Martes 15 de Agosto de 2000 6:30
>
> How about releasing the driver on an "open source as long as you are not
> borland/inprise or paying borland/inprise for interbase support" license.

This assumes whatever entity appears as NewCo would start immediately in
conflict with BorPrise, from day one. The danger is in destroying IB as a
viable alternative in the eyes of the clients.

> If this driver is first to market, it should become fairly widely adopted,
> and Inprise would then have great trouble selling support for interbase.

I don't think they want to sell support for themselves, but let other
companies to do that business. They want to keep "Open IB" linked to
"Borland.com" for marketing reasons.

> The license could also have a clause saying that wherever the
> contains code
> by inprise wording appears, there should be further wording, possibly
> linking to a web site of the full interbase@inprise history. The
> continuing
> embarassment for inprise should be a lever in getting them to remove that
> stupid modification to the MPL.
>
> Robert Munro

This is a straight suggestion, but remember that people can't be forced to
align with NewCo or they can't be coerced to believe NewCo is good and the
other side is bad. A while ago, Reed Mideke published instructions for
building Interbase, with a kind of license at the beginning. AFAICT, someone
asked him to remove that warning because people in the Open Source bandwagon
felt upset with the restrictions of the doc and the wording of the
constrained license.

C.