On Tue, March 4, 2008 2:18 pm, Gus Wirth wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: >> On Tue, March 4, 2008 1:22 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 07:48:31AM -0800, David Brown wrote: >>>> Declaring something to be public domain and disseminating it freely >>>> seem >>>> to >>>> be sufficient. >> >> RMS doesn't think so. >> >> Remember, M$ took lots of src that had been put in the bublic domain, >> cleaned it up, and closed it again. >> >> UC Berkeley Ingres project ---+---> PostgreSQL >> | >> +---> M$ SQL Server >> >> If putting things in the public domain were enough, there would be no >> GPL >> and no FSF. >> > > Microsoft is guilty of lots of things, but not that. The original M$ SQL > Server was derived from Sybase in a business "partnership" that allowed > M$ to port Sybase code to the M$ Windows platform. It was so compatible > that in the early days you could directly use Sybase clients against M$ > SQL Server. Somewhere I have notes that showed how to do that in Linux. > > Gus >
I stand corrected. Was Sybase licensed or stolen or public domain when they did that? In the Ingres case, many other commercial products started from that code base. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
