Bug 201489

Summary:	Review Request: FreeTDS - libraries for MS SQL and Sybase databases
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Chris Thomas <cwt137>
Component:	Package Review	Assignee:	Thorsten Leemhuis (ignored mailbox) <bugzilla-sink>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Package Reviews List <fedora-package-review>
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Description Chris Thomas 2006-08-06 06:15:37 UTC

Spec URL: http://cwt137.dyndns.org/~chris/rpmbuild/SPECS/freetds.spec
SRPM URL: http://cwt137.dyndns.org/~chris/rpmbuild/SRPMS/freetds-0.64-1.src.rpm
Description: FreeTDS is a free re-implementation of the TDS (Tabular DataStream) protocol that is used by Sybase and Microsoft for their database products. FreeTDS is a project to document and implement the TDS (Tabular DataStream) 
protocol. TDS is used by Sybase and Microsoft for client to database server 
communications. FreeTDS includes call level interfaces for DB-Lib, CT-Lib, 
and ODBC.

This is my first package and I need a sponsor.

Comment 1 Ville Skyttä 2006-08-06 09:02:46 UTC

FreeTDS is not suitable for inclusion in FE due to patent issues.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2006-July/msg00598.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2005-September/msg01164.html

Comment 2 Dawid Gajownik 2006-08-06 09:22:41 UTC

Maybe this information should be added to
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems page?

Comment 3 Rahul Sundaram 2006-08-14 06:09:55 UTC

Added info the above page.