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Clarification on redistributability of MSSQL JDBC Driver 8.4 components
I am reviewing the licensing terms for Microsoft JDBC Driver 8.4 for SQL Server, specifically for the native authentication library mssql-jdbc_auth-8.4.1.x64.dll and mssql-jdbc-8.4.1.jre8.jar. The l...
I totally agree that the license.txt file seems obtuse. Maybe a professional at reading legalese can decipher it better.
The documentation for the jdbc drivers does state that versions 6.0 and up are redistributable, but of course references the licence.txt, so...
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Redistribution
The JDBC Driver versions 6.0 and up are redistributable. Review the Distributable Code clause in the license agreements.
The JDBC Driver versions 4.x are obsolete. Support for 4.x expired before 2018.