--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Ann W. Harrison"
<aharrison@...> wrote:

>
> Adam wrote:
> 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
>

Ya, legal wise it would be ok, just need to keep the license aggrement
in the same directory, and offer free to download the source changes
when asked for. I haven't tried to look at the code, but I can
imagine that changing the name, would mean recoding it everytime there
is an update if I want to keep the changes.