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Re: Judge Jackson sees a future for Microsoft(s) (fwd)
- 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
> mailto:bkline AT rksystems.com
> http://www.rksystems.com
>
>
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Judge Jackson sees a future for Microsoft(s) (fwd),
Bob Kline, 06/08/2000
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Judge Jackson sees a future for Microsoft(s) (fwd), Stefan Bodewig, 06/09/2000
- Re: Judge Jackson sees a future for Microsoft(s) (fwd), Craig Spannring, 06/09/2000
- Re: Judge Jackson sees a future for Microsoft(s) (fwd), William P. McGonigle, 06/09/2000
- Re: Judge Jackson sees a future for Microsoft(s) (fwd), Bob Kline, 06/09/2000
- Re: Judge Jackson sees a future for Microsoft(s) (fwd), Bob Kline, 06/09/2000
- Re: Judge Jackson sees a future for Microsoft(s) (fwd), Fabien Roy, 06/09/2000
- Re: Judge Jackson sees a future for Microsoft(s) (fwd), Brian Bruns, 06/09/2000
- Re: Judge Jackson sees a future for Microsoft(s) (fwd), Scott C. Gray, 06/10/2000
- Re: Judge Jackson sees a future for Microsoft(s) (fwd), Bob Kline, 06/10/2000
- Re: Judge Jackson sees a future for Microsoft(s) (fwd), Bob Kline, 06/11/2000
- Re: Judge Jackson sees a future for Microsoft(s) (fwd), Lance Andersen, 06/12/2000
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