Slightly off-thread, but anyway ...
The other day ths post below appeared on borland.public.interbase.sql.
Is there any substance in the claim that "... They are wrong and can lose
their right to work with
the IPL code ...". Should Firebird post a response?

Regards,
Aage J.


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Subject: Re: Read the manual
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 11:55:24 -0500
From: "Jeff Overcash (TeamB)" <jeffovercash@...>
Organization: TeamB
Newsgroups: borland.public.interbase.sql

>...
> > This is *not* true. Firebird is under the exact same IPL that IB
> > Open Edition is. Since Firebird is based on the IB source code, the
> > Firebird project cannot legally change the licensing terms.
>
> Go and see it on there website under section
>
> http://firebird.sourceforge.net/index.php?op=faq#q5.dat
>

They need to correct this. They are wrong and can lose their right to work
with
the IPL code in particular from section 3.1 which stops modifiers from
distribution the source under something other than the IPL
...
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The post goes on at some length, I can post a full copy if anyone is
interested.