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# Firebird README

Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL standard features that runs on Linux, Windows, MacOS and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers. It has been used in production systems, under a variety of names, since 1981.

The Firebird Project is a commercially independent project of C/C++ programmers, technical advisors and supporters developing and enhancing a multi-platform relational database management system based on the source code released by Inprise Corporation on 25 July, 2000.

## Basic information

* https://www.firebirdsql.org/
* https://www.firebirdsql.org/en/historical-reference/
* https://www.firebirdsql.org/en/features/

## Documentation

* https://www.firebirdsql.org/en/documentation/
* https://www.firebirdfaq.org/

## Licensing

The source code is released under variants of the Mozilla Public Licence 1.1 (MPL):

* https://www.firebirdsql.org/en/initial-developer-s-public-license-version-1-0/
* https://www.firebirdsql.org/en/interbase-public-license/

## Development

The source code can be found at:  
https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird

Build instructions are here:
https://www.firebirdsql.org/en/building-the-code/

Bugs and feature requests should be submitted at:  
https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird/issues

You may find more details at:  
https://www.firebirdsql.org/en/development/