[Zope] Sybase DA + FreeBSD + TDS

[Andrew Kenneth Milton]

+----[ Anthony Baxter ]---------------------------------------------
| >>> Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote
| > | A few comments: You'll need a more recent release of Sybase than the 
| > | old free 11.0.3 version. There's an 11.9.2 that you can download. 
| > I only really need it to talk to MS-SQL 6.5 and it is working so the
| > 11.0.3 header files seem to be enough. I also didn't want to have anything
| > radically divergent from the FreeTDS base, so I figured an earlier release
| > was better.
| 
| I _believe_ the 11.0.3 release is a "free" one, i.e. you don't need to
| get a license for it. In that case, you could put together a how-to like

/*
**      Sybase Open Client/Server Version 10.0.1
**      Confidential Property of Sybase, Inc.
**      Copyright  Sybase, Inc. 1992, 1994
**      All rights reserved
*/

You don't need a license to use, I think you need a license to
redistribute parts of it. I guess if I put a How-To up on the
Zope site and if DigiCool are happy to take the heat for it,
I can do it, inc. patches against freetds and the Sybase
include files. It's the diffs against the include files I'm
worried about + the fact that FreeTDS is GPL and Sybase is not;
derivative products and all that. I'm not going to subject anyone
to possible legal action without their permission :-)

I guess if I was really keen, I'd just make the FreeTDS code 
conform to the Sybase Header files, instead of replacing the
Sybase structures with the FreeTDS ones. I'm not sure about the
legality of distributing that either though.

Should just get enough people to harass Sybase to release a FreeBSD version
and make the problem go away altogether :-)

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