FreeTDS Development Group

[Frediano Ziglio <freddyz77 AT tin.it>]

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!
> 
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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