5 The applicable and approved licenses for the source files
6 of the Firebird RDBMS project are:
8 1) InterBase Public License (IPL), version 1.0
9 http://bdn.borland.com/article/0,1410,30198,00.html
11 2) Initial Developer's Public License (IDPL), version 1.0
12 http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&page=ibp_idpl
14 The IPL is copyright of Borland Corp., the other licenses are copyright
15 by the source code authors and contributors.
21 1) The source code which was released under the IPL must keep this license.
22 All modifications / adaptations of this code are still subjects of the IPL.
24 2) The files that are derived from the IPL covered code, must also keep
25 this license. It means that if any new file contains some code covered by
26 the IPL, then this file should be released under the IPL too.
28 3) The new files developed by the members of the Firebird project should
29 be released under the IDPL.
31 4) The new files contributed by people who are not members of the Firebird
32 project should follow the rule #3. If an author (initial developer) doesn't
33 specify the license to be used, the person who applies the contributed code
34 to the CVS tree (a committer) becomes responsible for the license assigned
35 to the contributed code.
37 5) Every non-binary file that exists in the CVS tree, should have a header
38 section which describes the license this code is released under. If a file
39 contains no header, it means that this code is freeware and nobody owns the
40 appropriate copyrights.
43 You may find the exhibits for the approved licenses in /doc/license directory