[...]

> 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.
>

I originally put the copyright notice (it was NOT a license) there
so that newcomers to the source would think about why the only
instructions for building came from someone outside of Inprise, under
those terms. On further consideration, I decided that having this notice
exist would complicate the widespread distribution of this information,
and that my main goal in publishing the instructions was to help
anyone interested build the product, rather than antagonizing Inprise.

I also decided that I would rather be on the best possible terms with
those engineers who, for whatever reason, remain with Inprise.
I was hoping that Inprise would allow them to take a mentoring
role for all of those interested interested in working on IB source
code, but it seems that Inprise has not understood the fact that
secret plans and unilateral pronouncements are fundamentally
incompatible with community development, and that leadership
in open source comes only from actions, not words or legal documents.

I think that the total silence from Inprise in the last few weeks
has adequately demonstrated either the intention of destroying IB, or
their incompetence in supporting it (and I'm speaking only of Inprise
management here. I know that several very talented engineers remain,
and I have nothing but respect for both their personal integrity
and their technical abilities).
[...]

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If that doesn't work: rfm(at)portalofevil.com
InterBase build instructions: www.cruzers.com/~rfm