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From: ben@india.sybase.com (benjamin e. von ullrich)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Is there an ftp-able archive of PD SYBASE source?
Message-ID: <12890@sybase.sybase.com>
Date: 25 Mar 91 03:05:21 GMT
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the SYBASE system is a proprietary, copyrighted system that is available for
use by license only.  licenses usually cost money, but always involve a legal
contract.  if you want source, i think the only source code sybase sells is 
that of DB-LIBRARY (or OPEN CLIENT), the programming library which
connects all front-end programs to SQL Server.  source for other parts of
the system, most notably SQL Server, is not available.  Come on, folks, how it
works is a secret!

i'm not in product marketing or legal, so take my statements accordingly.
the answer to your question is: Sybase is NOT public-domain.


..ben
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