FreeTDS Development Group

[Steve Langasek <vorlon AT netexpress.net>]

On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 11:07:12PM -0400, James K. Lowden wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 19:35:19 -0500, Steve Langasek <vorlon AT netexpress.net>
> wrote:
> > FreeTDS does not currently implement support for Named Pipe-based SQL
> > connections -- that is, connections transported over the DCE/RPC
> > interface, which uses tcp port 139, 445, or 135 on Windows machines
> > depending on the type of encapsulation used for DCE/RPC itself.
> > Supporting this would require a fairly extensive DCE/RPC library for
> > Unix (such as the one built into Samba, which is licensed under the GPL
> > and therefore not generally considered usable by most other projects
> > aiming to produce libraries).

> I took the liberty of updating the UG based on today's discussion, quoting
> some of what what said.  If you want attribution or to make a correction
> or whatever, please let me know.  One rendered copy can be found at:

> http://www.schemamania.org/projects/freetds/build/doc/userguide/x1369.htm

Oh, I'm probably better off not having my name publically tied to an
instance of the "Samba should LGPL their support code" argument... ;-)

Looks good, although s/LGPL-licenses/LGPL-licensed/.

Thanks,
-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer