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  • From: Bob Kline <bkline AT rksystems.com>
  • To: TDS Development Group <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Judge Jackson sees a future for Microsoft(s) (fwd)
  • Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 11:50:19 -0400 (EDT)


On 9 Jun 2000, William P. McGonigle wrote:

>
>
> I think the standard legal means of dealing with such licenses is
> the clean-room implementation, where some folks agree to the license
> and only answer "you're getting hotter" and "you're getting colder"
> questions from folks who are writing the code. IIRC, IBM sued
> Phoenix for doing this with their PC BIOS and was unsuccessful in
> that suit. Detailed logs of the process were what saved Phoenix.

OK, I downloaded the Sybase document. I haven't really read it very
carefully or used any of the information in it, but asserting that
wouldn't do me much good in a courtroom. Should I refrain from
contributing to the freetds code?

--
Bob Kline
mailto:bkline AT rksystems.com
http://www.rksystems.com





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