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

>
> 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.

I should have been more clear. I did not envisage any legal hurdles
for making such changes from the Firebird end. But if you made a
custom build and called it 'Microsoft SQL Server', then you have just
infringed trademarks owned by Microsoft (at the least), you are
possibly also guilty of fraud, and really in trouble if you have
charged license fees on the basis of them being supplied SQL Server
licenses.

Adam