Subject Re: [firebird-support] question about copyright law
Author Helen Borrie
At 11:29 PM 15/12/2011, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
>On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:25:15 +1300, Helen Borrie <helebor@...>
>wrote:
>
>> That was a
>> piece of bad advice, not only because it seriously infringes our
>trademark
>> policy but because it leaves *you* open to criminal prosecution for
>false
>> pretences.
>
>I disagree: the IPL and IDPL licenses gives every user the right to
>sublicense the work, so they can make a pretty certificate to go with the
>license terms if they want to.

Whether you agree or disagree, the IPL and IDPL licences refer to the right to copy the source code, not the right to deploy binaries. It is not because of the licences that people get Firebird free of payment.

./heLen