Hello, all.
Since I CC'ed this list to request more information from EasySoft and only
got a personal response without a CC to this list, I'm FWing the answer from
Nick Gorham to clarify what's about EasySoft's unfinished (beta?) ODBC
driver.
I was misleading by reading their site, thinking that the IB driver would
be open source, same as the one they are building for Oracle.
Hope Mr. Gorham won't have problems with this email. After all, I requested
general information that probably is inside a readme file in the download
itself. But for my limited bandwidth, the file is heavy as to get it only to
know the terms of the intended license.
See the response below, please.

C.
-----Original Message-----
From: nick@... [mailto:nick@...]On Behalf Of
Nick Gorham
Sent: Viernes 1 de Septiembre de 2000 2:50
To: Claudio Valderrama C.
Subject: Re: ODBC Driver


"Claudio Valderrama C." wrote:

> Nick, I went to easysoft.com's home and found some notice on an

open source

> ODBC driver for Oracle. No mention to Interbase is done unless I missed

the

> obvious link.
> I also was perusing the new URL, easysoft.org for Open Source ODBC

drivers

> without finding anything about Interbase. Where can I find details about
> supported dialects and other issues?
> Does the Open Source tag mean implicitly that the intended ODBC

driver will

> be for free? Just want to know the straight answer, even if it may be

deemed

> redundant.
>

Hi,

No its unlikley to be free (at least at the moment). Originally when we were
offered
cash to produce this driver, it was going to be free, and would have been at
www.easysoft.org. However after the fallout, its intended at the moment to
be a
commercial closed driver. Its a shame but thats the only way I could get it
out at
all. It may be possible for borland at a later date to convince us that it
should be
open, but we will see.

I havn't put anything on the web site at the moment, it's just from the ftp
site, our
webmaster is somewhat busy at the moment with http://www.cinema.com

We havn't set pricing yet, but I guess the $100 tag may prove popular. My
aim at the
moment is to get the code in use and tested, and not wasted.

--
Nick Gorham
"I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence,
There's a knob called brightness, but it doesn't work."
- Eugene P. Gallagher