[Gdal-dev] OGR OLEDB Provider

[Mateusz Loskot]

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> 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.

Regarding the modified ATL stuff, here is what Visual Studio 2005 EULA says:

3. ADDITIONAL LICENSING REQUIREMENTS AND/OR USE RIGHTS

- MFCs, ATLs and CRTs.  You may modify the source code form of Microsoft
Foundation Classes (MFCs), Active Template Libraries (ATLs), and C
runtimes (CRTs) to design, develop and test your programs, and copy and
distribute the object code form of your
modified files under a new name.

Cheers
-- 
Mateusz Loskot
http://mateusz.loskot.net