RE: Verrrry interesting article at MetaLink

Jared,
Yes, you should be both.

Well, this not a legal advise, just my personal view:  I would find a layer, who specialises in the intellectual property laws, sue Oracle ... and settle.

Add a clause to the header, which will allow for usage of your scripts the way you mean it.

For all those of you, who may be in the similar situation, here is an anecdote from my previous life.

 When times were less certain and rules adhered to seldom and far apart, the way to protect oneself in case of a future legal dispute was:

• write (by hand) on whatever you created
• seal in the envelope
• send to oneself by the registered post
• put into a safe without opening

 Sad but real.

inka

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Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 3:13 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Dear list,

I found something rather interesting on MetaLink today.

While doing a little research on UTL_FILE, I came across document # 1050919.6. This document deals with how to dump a table to an ascii file.

http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_database_id=NOT&p_id=1050919.6

I began to think the code looked a little familiar. Then I saw the temporary file name of '_dtmp.sql', which was rather reminiscent of file names I use.

Further perusal revealed that the comments were written by yours truly, and match word for word those I added to the dump.sql script years ago.

See for yourself: http://www.cybcon.com/~jkstill/util/zips/dump.sql

I don't know whether to be flattered or upset.

Jared

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