Re: FreeTDS (legal)

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On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 10:15 -0500, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 14:48 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for your long mail!
> > 
> > Notice that freetds is currently in livna already, but having it in Fedora 
> > proper would be advantagous for packages like libgda (which could then support) 
> > tds) and php-freetds
> > 
> > This gets a +1 from me.
> > 
> > Spot, does this need to go through RH-legal, or can you ok it?
> 
> I'm still not happy about the only available standards document being
> marked confidential, but I'm convinced there is no patent concern.
> 
> This should be fine to move to Fedora.
> 
> James, thanks for the clarifications.
> 
> ~spot
> 

Well, I'll begin the moving (submit for review etc.) in coming week.

Additionally, I'll handle php-mssql stuff too.


James,
Could you please add all your clarifications into upstream's tarball (as
some README.patents file or similar) ?


Regards,
Dmitry Butskoy