Editing InterBase (section)

===Open source===
In early 2000, [[Borland]] announced that InterBase would be released under [[open-source software|open-source]], and began negotiations to spin off a separate company to manage the product. The [[source code]] for InterBase version 6 was released under a variant of the [[Mozilla Public License]] in mid-2000.

With the InterBase division at Borland under new management, the company released a [[proprietary software|proprietary]] version of InterBase version 6 and then 6.5. Borland released several updates to the open source code before announcing that it would no longer actively develop the open source project. [[Firebird (database server)|Firebird]], an open source [[fork (software)|fork]] of the InterBase 6 code, however, remains in active development.

In 2001, a [[Backdoor (computing)|backdoor]] was discovered in the software that had been present in all versions since 1994 and then resolved.<ref name="Backdoor">
{{cite web|url=http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-01.html|date=11 January 2000|title=CERT Advisory CA-2001-01 Interbase Server Contains Compiled-in Back Door Account|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011118011732/http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-01.html|archive-date=18 November 2001}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2001-0008/|date=12 January 2000|title=Backdoor account in Interbase database server allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files using stored procedures. |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121207022037/https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2001-0008/|archive-date=7 December 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/247371/|date=11 January 2001|title=Borland/Inprise Interbase SQL database server contains backdoor superuser account with known password|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011217094921/https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/247371/|archive-date=17 December 2001}}</ref>