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Re: Opensource or not?

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From: Toni Martir
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 19:47
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> Do you know this to be the case or are you guessing?  I'm not aware of
> anyone who has actually received a copy of the certified IB as of yet.
> I certainly haven't.

Sorry, I didn't know Borland is shelling interbase but not shiping it.

For now the changes I made to Interbase are little (added verbose index
creation when restoring and backup/restore records verbose), the changes are
now posted in the firebird tree project, but I'm open to Borland also if
they are honest to the Opensource path they began releasing the source of
the Interbase engine.

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.

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)?

This is not happening now if they didn't accepted contributions from the
community, but if they didn't accepted contributions from the community what
type of opensource management are taking?

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).

Thanks for your atention and excuseme for my bad english.
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