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Toni Martir wrote:
> 
> In my opinion, to be honest they must release Interbase certified and
> licensed version at the same time of Interbase Opensource version, but they
> are free to do it if all the code is owned by Borland.

	This is in fact exactly what they have stated they are planning to do. 
They have never said that it will be on pecisely the same day, hour,
minute, and second, but I would expect it to be Real Soon Now (TM).
 
> Supose Borland accepts some important contributions from the community to
> the core engine of Interbase under the terms of the IPL license. Is it legal
> to sell that product claming some of this features without providing the
> source of that engine for a time(shiping it or not shiping it)?

	IANAL, but by my reading of the IPL, Borland as the original copyright
holder is allowed to do pretty much anything they want to with future
versions of IB.  That said, I certainly wouldn't want to contribute to a
project on the understanding that it was open sourced and then find out
that it wasn't, so I understand your concern.  Simultaneously
contributing your changes to Firebird should pretty much take care of
that, though.  Your changes are out and available to the public, whether
or not Borland might choose to accept them.

	I would hope that when Borland sets up a formal process for accepting
community contributions this will be addressed in a more standard way.

> I'm confused because this situation. Borland should be more clear, (the
> letter at the home page of Interbase is not clear in some points).

	They do realize that and a Q&A is in the process.  My guess is that
their legions of lawyers are taking a long time approving it.

	-Craig

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