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  • From: Frediano Ziglio <freddyz77 AT tin.it>
  • To: TDS Development Group <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: What's "legal" ? (was TDS protocol spec)
  • Date: 17 Aug 2002 19:29:47 +0200


Il sab, 2002-08-03 alle 22:04, Brian Bruns ha scritto:
>
> My concern in a nutshell is this. The orginal EULA that the document was
> provided on has some language explicitly not permiting "disclosure". In
> essence the ELUA is a NDA (non-disclosure agreement) similar to those used
> by hardware manufacturers. Developers under linux/bsd/whatever are not
> allowed to read a specification under NDA and develop a driver for which
> source will be available. Implementing knowledge in the spec and
> releasing source code is "disclosure". Interestingly enough, one may
> produce a binary of said driver and party B may decompile it and
> reimplement one in source, but no one said the law has to make sense!
>
....

I don't understand where can I find information
- the TDS 5.0 confidential documentation mentioned above
(downloading this document seem not limited in this way..)
- documentation on web about function in library
(seem right)
- header in openclient or mssql headers
(seem not right, I don't understand why...)
- tracing of connection
(seem right... I don't understand why)
- compile test program with Sybase OpenClient or MS ODBC and check the
behaviour of function
(seem right)
- use compiled program to test value of constant without watch into
headers
- disassemble program to discover these values

freddy77






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