FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT freetds.org>]

It came to my attention recently that FreeTDS was not included in any
Fedora distribution due to legal concerns, specifically about patent
infringment.  I wrote to the Fedora list (fedora-devel-list.redhat.com,
"Development discussions related to Fedora Core") to explain that the
patent in question does not apply, and that FreeTDS is absolutely
unencumbered in every way.  

As a result of my post, FreeTDS has been added to Fedora.  If you're
interested in testing it, that would be a service to both projects.  (I
don't use Fedora, but I know many people do.)  

Details follow, followed by celebration.  ;-)

> Freetds are in "updates-testing" for Fedora 7 now (and will appear soon 
> for Fedora Extras 6 as well). It would be nice if you check it a bit,
> see:
> ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/testing/7/i386/freetds-0.64-5.fc7.i386.rpm
> ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/testing/7/i386/freetds-devel-0.64-5.fc7.i386.rpm

Any issues with the package are probably best directed to the above Fedora
list, unless you see something that can be fixed here.  

Your humble maintainer, 

--jkl