The Release Notes (page 52) states of the embedded server:

Database access[:] Only “true local” access is allowed. The embedded server
has no support for remote protocols, so even access via "localhost" won't
work.

Helen Borrie on Nov 18 states:
There are more possibilities in the mix. From the same machine, a user
could be working with a local database using the embedded server and,
simultaneously, connecting from the same application (and client library)
to a database on a remote server.

I'm a little confused now. Are the release notes in error?
I've tried renaming the fbembed.dll to gds32.dll into the application
directory of one of my apps and it appears to connect no problem with a
remote database server.

Can I therefore distribute fbembed.dll (renamed to gds32.dll or
fbclient.dll - whichever I need) all the time - i.e. forget about the client
only lib (if distro size is not important)?
thanks
Alan