> if you check out http://www.borland.com/about/press/2000/ib.html
>
> you'll see the news that we have open-sourced InterBase on NT, Linux &
> Solaris, including the Beta v.6 of InterBase.
>
> More info on this as we get it (and can release it :) ).
>
> Hmmm, now let me see - free, industrial strength DB, with the option to
> change it to your own needs..... being 5.6 is already a stable code base
> (and 6.0 was at the point of "we've finished with it, now can you check
> your reported bugs are fixed"), I'd say that would beat MSDE hands down,
> no?
Well, it all depends on the license terms which are (as yet) unannounced.
>From a commericial extention/use perspective,
Artistic, LGPL or BSD would be ideal.
MPL would be fine.
QPL would be bearable.
GPL would be irksome.
But that depends upon how 'mere aggregation' is interpreted for embedded DBs
i.e. is the DB server part of your source-base or not? Since it's a
seperate process communicating over a socket (or shared memory), I'd be
inclined to say it's 'mere aggregation' in which case, even the GPL would
not encumber you.
Anyway, the devil is in the details....
TTFN,
Paul.
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