[Mono-list] FreeTDS & System.Data

[Guenther Roith]

> As for porting those java tds providers to C#, they would have to have a
BSD
> or X11/MIT or similar since the Mono class libraries are under the X11
> license.  Or you could just get the permission of the authors to port to
C#
> and put the port under an X11 license.  However, I know very little about
> licensing issues.

It seems to be BSD style license ;-)

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