Helen Borrie wrote:

> At 09:58 PM 01-05-01 +0000, you wrote:
>
> > > Also, I would not advertise Firebird as the "Interbase descendant"
> > > because that's a violation of Borland's trademark and the Interbase
> > > Public License.
> >
> >Violation of the promotion clause (Amendments II.2) you mean? In my
> >opinion it must be permitted to explain the relationship between
> >InterBase and Firebird and therefore obviously to use the name
> >InterBase for that purpose. Especially on the Firebird website I
> >therefore don't see a problem with this.
>

I always liked Firebird - daughter of InterBase(r), which I think someone said we could get away with, but maybe we don't care. We do need a catchy jingo, probably something that says what we do.

That was/is the advantage of FirebirdSQL, it told what we did in the name as well. otherwise I think our jingo has to do it. InterBase(r) descendant does it by assuming people know what InterBase is.


Firebird - The opensource SQL92 compliant database
Firebird - Open and free SQL92 compliance
Firebird - The experienced SQL database

So do we run a jingo competition as well as logo and web page ones :-).

Cheers

Mark