FreeTDS Development Group

["Brian Bruns" <camber AT ais.org>]

I emailed someone at Sybase to find out what was going on and the
determination was that the original license did have problems and that if
it was possible to obtain the document without going through the license
agreement it was probably safe, but that he would check with legal.  So,
it appears everything is fine with using it.

Brian

> 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