> On Mar 5, 2015, at 12:07 PM, Paul Beach <pbe...@ibphoenix.com> wrote: > > 05.03.2015 16:13, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote: >> We are talking about sources (particularly headers), no?.. > > << I mean that if you are going to update headers to a new license URL, it > would be better > if it is official project's site URL, not IBPhoenix one.>> > > The IPL license hosted on IBPhoenix was the license originally used, i.e. we > hosted the original license that the InterBase code was > released with (as Ann and I devised it). If I remember rightly the Inprise > license was slightly modified after release. > > We also hosted the IDPL license because again if I remember rightly, Jim > initially used the IDPL for the Vulcan work. >
My recollection is that the IPL was worked out among Paul, me, Dale Fuller, and a few others. The original Mozilla licenses gave ownership rights to Netscape. We changed it to Inprise and its successors. When Firebird launched as an independent entity, we (same crowd, minus Dale) created the IDPL which gave the individual developer ownership rights. For better or for worse, we didn't want any entity, including the not yet created Firebird Foundation, to be able to take the code private or create closed source "enterprise" versions. Again, at the time, IBPhoenix had a website based on Netfrastructure and the Firebird Foundation didn't, since it didn't exist. At this point inertia takes hold. When you're working on code, the last thing you think about is updating headers. When Netfrastructure ceased to be supported, IBPhoenix changed its website and the old addresses went away. Cheers, Ann ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
