[Gdal-dev] OGR OLEDB Provider

[Frank Warmerdam]

Tamas Szekeres wrote:
> Frank,
> 
> I understand your concerns. So far I didn't realize that this driver
> exists in the trunk at all. So it would take me a while to see whether
> it's worthy to keep or not from the aspect of the
> usability/performance.
> However I'm not really aware of the necessary steps from the aspect of
> the provenance. If it would require the corresponding code to be
> rewritten then it wouldn't be so realistic to keep that in.

Tamas,

It would require one of:
  o Replacing (ie. rewriting) the code.
  o Getting permission to relicense or at least a clear and compatible
    license declaration from the original copyright holder
  o Or verifying that the original was licensed in a compatible fashion.

It is complicated due to the fact that the original authors are likely
to be hard to track down.  I don't recall who at ESRI I received some
of the code from.  Another chunk is modified ATL OLE DB classes - who do
I talk to - Microsoft?  The third is third part example code.  Presumably
intended to be modified and used but hard to track down and verify now.

Best regards,
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