Re: [Firebird-docs] Complete Language Reference

[Paul V. <pa...@vi...>]

Cosmin Apreutesei wrote:

>> What Firebird needs most urgently IMO is a complete SQL reference,
>> something along the lines of Borland's LangRef or IBPhoenix's
>> Firebird Reference Guide. But with a somewhat different structure
>> and without including the system tables.

> Are there any copyright restrictions to doing this (merging langref
> with relnotes and ref guides) ?

Yes. We cannot use material from any of the InterBase docs, because
they are (c) Borland/Inprise. For the same reason, we cannot use most
of the IBPhoenix LangRef, because it largely consists of the same
material. (Borland never took any action, possibly because they
themselves used material that was at least co-owned by the IBPhoenix
people without permission.)

From the Release Notes, we can use whatever we want, because they
have been published under the Public Documentation License.

There's also a reference guide written by Pavel Cisar which we have
permission to use. But as far as I know, it hasn't been translated
from Czech to English yet.


Paul Vinkenoog