At 04:49 PM 17/11/2005 +1100, you wrote:

>Greeting all,
> I'm currently in the process of integrating Firebird into the
>application that I work on. It's come time to make sure things are all
>legal and above board W.R.T. Firebirds licence and our companys lawyers.
>
> If I look on the main page of the Firebird site, one of the
>first couple of paragraphs mention that new code modules added to
>Firebird are licenced under the IDPL but the original modules where
>licenced by Inprise/Borland under the Interbase Public Licence. I can
>remember reading somewhere that Firebird V2, which we will be shipping
>with, was a complete rewrite of the originally released code. Therefore
>am I correct in:
>
>1) Remembering that V2 is a complete rewrite?
>
>2) If it is a rewrite, then does all of V2 fall under the IDPL?
>
> Any thoughts greatly appreciated as I would like to keep the
>interaction between myself and the lawyers to a minimum and if I can say
>that there is no question regarding the licence, all the better.

As Claudio said...
but make sure you understand what a "source code licence" actually is. You
won't actually bump into anything proactive you have to do unless you
modify the source code....and distribute those binaries.

"Open Source" or the IPL or the IDPL are not what makes use of the binaries
free-beer, you know. The Firebird Project could charge you deployment fees
and whatever for distributing its binaries, as e.g. MySQL does for some of
its packaging. Firebird happens not to, has no plans to, has no
infrastructure to charge fees.

Helen