At 07:26 a.m. 19/07/2013, Mark Rotteveel wrote: >On 18-7-2013 15:44, Alex Peshkoff wrote: >> On 07/18/13 17:30, marius adrian popa wrote: >>> At least should be a link that works >>> >>> http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/interbase-public-license/ >> >> No, we can't change something in Inprise license. > >I disagree, I think it is perfectly fine (and I think legally even >necessary) to either replace the URL to one that works, or - if you >really think it is such a problem to touch this text - add an addendum >that points to a working location.
Agreed. In fact (as I'll explain below) we had to do a fair amount of "tap-dancing" back in those early days to ensure that the pointed-to licence text was the correct one. >Funny thing though, I looked it up in the wayback machine, and the only >snapshot of http://www.Inprise.com/IPL.html with actual content was on >August 15, 2000, in the next snapshot on October 18, 2000 it was >replaced by a redirect to http://www.borland.com/interbase/IPL.html . Borland/Inprise was doing some shifty things then. When they reverted the company name to Borland, they also altered the licence and gave it a new version number. Since the source code for Firebird was that released under v.1.0 of the licence, we had to keep those links under observation for a while. >The redirect disappears between December 11, 2004 and March 7, 2005. Probably; but AFAIR, by that time we were consistently pointing to the copy of the original licence which was archived on the IBPhoenix site. In the early days, IBPhoenix was hosting the Firebird pages (such as they were). Later, when Atkin/Broadview was hosting us on the old Atkin servers, the services were pretty unstable so keeping the licence archives on the IBPhoenix servers seemed the best option available. >The Borland page it links to with the IPL already disappeared between >April 5, 2001 and June 3, 2001. Actually, v.1.0 of the licence disappeared earlier than that, some time in 2000. I can still recall ploughing around Google caches searching for the original licence, well before we released Fb 1.0. Helen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
