Re: [stellation-res] Some database questions, with major performance imp

["Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <mcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 11 August 2002 07:43 pm, Rodolfo M. Raya wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-08-11 at 15:40, Dave Shields wrote:
>
>
>     I just used Google to locate Firebird, and their site mentions they
>     use the InterBase Public License v1.0, which is the same license under
>      which Inprise released their code.. Unfortunately, I don't find this
>     license in the list of OSI approved licenses available at
>     http://www.opensource.org.
>
>
> Hi again,
>
> Just remebered why my lawyer approved the license: It's the same as
> Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL) that OSI approved.. Imprise only
> changed the words Netscape/Mozilla  for Imprise and stated it in the
> license text (see section 6.4)
>
> Rodolfo


Ah.... That's much better. I think if we decide that we want to use Firebird
as our primary system that I'll need to double-check with the IBM
legal folks to  make sure that the amendment deletions mentioned in 6.4
and the new amendment don't cause any problems. But given that
it's basically MPL, I think we should re-add it to the considered list.

	-Mark

	-Mark

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