From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 2 23:21:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7313B14ED9 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 23:21:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca [204.244.186.218] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #4) id 10I5y3-0007Z9-00; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 23:21:19 -0800 Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 23:21:15 -0800 (PST) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: John Fieber Cc: chris@calldei.com, Tim Tsai , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using Linux libraries In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, John Fieber wrote: > On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Chris Costello wrote: > > > Firstly, I'm not sure if Sybase supports FreeBSD. Is their > > software open source? > > The license explicitly forbids running the Linux port under > emulation on a non-linux system. It doesn't seem to mention anything about emulation. It says you can't use the software on a non-Linux platform. I don't think they care about emulation, but I do think they care non-Linux clients being used. I don't really understand Sybase client software licensing, but it seems that you must buy clients for other platforms (unlike Oracle where clients for Windows and JDBC are free downloads). > -john Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message