illegal creativity?

[Randall Reetz]

What country are you working from?  In the usa it is illegal to include anything in a contract that is illegal.  I am pretty sure the restriction of use clause you are describing would fall pretty hard in an appeals court.  Imagine BMW demanding that once a person had driven in or been a passenger within one of their cars, that they could not now ever do the same in another car not made by BMW.   

-----Original Message-----
From: "viktoras d." <viktoras at ekoinf.net>
To: "How to use Revolution" <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: 3/20/2009 3:18 AM
Subject: Re: illegal creativity?

Thanks a lot Richard, Mark, Lynn, Randall, Peter, Luis for help!

This is a tool for quite specific environmental data analysis and 
mapping. It reads data from nearly any RDBMS sufficiently supported by 
Revolution or ODBC - end user does not feel any difference - his only 
care is to choose his preferred database file or server.

Scientists usually have access and share data stored in different 
databases or file formats and every person may have different 
preferences. Some prefer PostgreSQL over MySQL, others like MySQL more, 
some use MS Access or Oracle, for yet others Sqlite satisfies all their 
needs. So I intended to enable them to copy databases directly from, 
say, Access to MySQL, or, maybe, SQLite to Valentina and vice versa if 
they wish to do so, with just a couple of mouse clicks. Then I 
remembered some time ago having read this strangely restrictive license 
term in EULA of one database vendor (I still have to remember which 
one..) and this raised some doubts on possible  consequences of this 
feature.

At this moment I think I would better not risk and will activate the 
feature for open source databases only and databases that I am 100% sure 
do not restrict data export/import to other competing RDBMS in their EULAs.

By the way (well, this question should start another thread) does anyone 
know if there exists a Revolution library to access Firebird RDBMS?

Thanks again and all the best!
Viktoras




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