There is this project - http://sourceforge.net/projects/opendrda/ however it looks fairly dead at the moment.
> >> Why don't you release a OSS version of a driver for derby, or have > >> the community develop one... > >> > > > > Do We really want another driver? > > No, but we really want another license. I'd bet we could get a driver > written faster than IBM would take to donate to the ASF, or relicense > under terms that the ASF would accept to keep the jar here in SVN. >
