On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 08:39:55AM +0200, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
> Before downloading you have to accept the EPL license. Now that package
> does contain a stdio.h (in src/lib/sfio/stdio_s) with the 'scary'
> license, but in my opinion that is overruled by the fact that the ATT
> website itself says it is under EPL before you download it.
As I tried to explain yesterday, this is nice but this link is in the
opposite direction. Someone who downloads Firebird source tarball and
wants to use (and possibly redistribute) it in some way, cannot rely
on some website somewhere providing the same file under compatible
license (moreover, it actually does _not_ provide the same file).
He/she has only the file and the text on top of it - and it sounds quite
discouraging.
Anyway, if noone else thinks this is a problem, I'll just remove the
file as (at least some) other Linux distributions do.
Michal Kubecek
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