At 12:11 PM 17/11/2006, Adam wrote:

>You made me laugh. That is seriously dodgy, and it is unlikely you
>could achieve it without breaking a lot of laws, particularly
>trademarks and alike. Secondly, any DBA will recognise within a second
>that the engine is not what you have advertised it as when it only
>takes 10MB of hard disk space with all documentation. They would
>question you about the missing query profiler and all the other
>goodies that makes SQL Server so attractive.

True; but it's quite within the rules of Firebird's licensing to
change it, recompile it and call it something else. However, it's
also in the licensing rules that you can only do so if you 1) keep
the original licensing intact; 2) provide a clear statement of the
licence in all installations; and 3) open the source code of your
modifications under the IDPL and provide the source code on request.

But as for trying to deceive your customers that they are using
Oracle or MSSQL server under another name when they are really using
Firebird under another name, what can one say except "How soon do you
want to end up in court against some of the most notorious civil
lawyers in the US?" It would be a lot cheaper to book your boss in
for a brain transplant....

./heLen