Hi Ann,

Ann W. Harrison wrote:

> At 03:37 PM 6/9/2002 +0200, Frank Ingermann wrote:
>
>>Now my question is: is it allowed/legal/welcome... to upload the
>>821 build to my Firebird homepage to offer it for download there,
>>or are people who want/need this build required to buy the CD?
>
> The IBPhoenix crowd have no more rights to a Firebird build than
> anyone else. Yes, you can build and offer binaries.

Thank you, Ann, this finally answers my question!

> It would
> probably be best if you called them Firebird as long as they are
> built from the Firebird source tree. The IPL prevents you from
> calling them InterBase(r)

Inter... Inter... i vaguely remember having heard that term somewhere,
but must have deleted it from my vocabulary.gdb some time ago :-)

> - as if anyone would. That prohibition
> is a trademark issue. You could call them FIngerBird if you
> want - there's no prohibition on that either.
>
> You'd save the world a lot of trouble if you listed the differences
> between the binaries on your site and FB1, and the difference between
> it and other binaries on sourceforge, just so we don't answer that
> question on the lists once (or twice) for everyone who finds your
> site.

Atm i'm saving myself a whole more lot of trouble by not even
having a M$ C compiler <bg>, which implies that i don't have
the facilities to build my own binaries... awaiting FB 2.0 !!

Btw. it would be kind if someone from the Firebird team could take a
look at http://www.fingerbird.de/build821.htm . I hope i made things
clear and gave correct information, if not please drop me a note!

> Regards,
>
> Ann
> www.ibphoenix.com
> We have answers.

thanks again & regards,

fingerman
www.fingerbird.de
I have questions :)
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