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Re: IB distribution

#5452
From: Jeff Overcash (TeamB)
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 00:49
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"Robert F. Tulloch" wrote:
> 
> Hi:
> 
>   Now don't take this as an attack on you since you are not a Borland employee.
> 
> > I will do here what I did on the web page, avoid the issue, but I
> > understand...
> 
>   So I understand from this that if we use the Open Source (non-certified) and
> distribute it with our application we can't call it Interbase. So our apps are likely
> to see well with an name like CrudBase, UncertifiedBase, NoNameBase, MyHomeBase,
> BaselessBase?
> 
>   This sounds like a scam to force people to use the certified version to have the
> right to use the Interbase lable.
> 
>   Or, have I got this all wrong?
> 
>   Thanks.
> 
>                                                       Best regards

I think you can say the Database was built from the open source version of
InterBase.  You can not call your Database "InterBase" without permission from
Borland.  They own the trademark and copyright to that name and have the right
to defend its integrity.

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