Adam wrote:

>>
>> Is there any way possible to rename (besides change and recompile) the
>> name from Firebird to say, BahEngine. I was planning to change the
>> default port to something else too, which is easy.
>>
> 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.

Actually, the legal agreement between "firebird" and its users is
just the license and there's nothing in the license that prohibits
changing the name. Technically, it's a fork, the same way turning
InterBase 6.0 into Firebird 1.0 was a fork. Under the IPL, you're
supposed to give Borland credit for having created InterBase, but
that has never been enforced. There's no requirement to keep the
Firebird name.

Off the top of my head, I don't know how complicated it would be
to change the names - not terribly hard I'd guess. But it would
be easier just to say that you need a browser and you chose the
one from Mozilla. Somebody ought to gain from that confusion.


Cheers,


Ann