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Article #5563Re: Opensource or not?
From: Toni Martir
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 09:58
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 09:58
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> Please keep in mind, InterBase is not a hobby. It is used in every carea of > life; > banks, stock exchanges, military equipment, office and home use. We have to be > careful how and who adds to our product. We are working on making a better > open source model, but for now, our newsgroups are the best place to voice your > ideas. > Ok, but before posting changes, bugfixes or enhacements to this newsgroup, I (and I think the community) want to know if their contributions will be owned by Borland and therefore Borland can do that he's doing now: - Releasing a certified version before the opensource version (hidding the bugfixes for the time they want) I think if there are contributions from the community not owned by Borland they must release the source of the core engine before or at the moment of the certified version because the IPL not only protects Borland code, it also protects community code, please correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks
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