Maurizio,

Firebird is based on the IPL (InterBase Public License), which
permits you to use the Firebird binaries for non-commercial and
commercial applications for free.

Also, if you want to create your own (tailored) installation
script of your application including Firebird binaries, then
you can do that.

But, if you create your own binaries with changes in the Firebird
source code, then you *must* make those changes publicly available.
(For example to the Firebird development team).

HTH,
Thomas Steinmaurer
IB LogManager 2.1 - The Logging/Auditing Tool for InterBase and Firebird
http://www.iblogmanager.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maurizio Galeone [mailto:maurg@...]
> Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 1:04 PM
> To: ib-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [ib-support] Fw: ib licensing
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>
> hello,
> I would like to write a commercial closed source
> software and I'd like to add in it ibserver.exe and some
> other executables taken from the FIREBIRD distribuition.
> The license is too hard to understand for me...
>
> 1) Can I add the ibserver.exe in my
> closed-source commercial software??
>
> 2) If so, what kind of documentation should I add??
>
> Thanx in advance :-)
>
> Maurizio
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