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  • From: Brian Bruns <camber AT umcc.ais.org>
  • 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 14:15:12 -0400 (EDT)



Certainly, work on TDS 7.0 shouldn't be affected by posessing the TDS spec
from Sybase, and there is a body of reverse-engineered work that was
available prior to spec release. So, my guess would be that as long as you
don't start fixing magic numbers and other unknowns from the 4.2/5.0 portions,
you're safe.

Brian

(Just document code belonging to you as such...that way there are no gray
areas).

On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Bob Kline wrote:

> 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
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> http://www.rksystems.com
>
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