If you mean by a 'clean room schema' a schema that is not an exact copy of the original, then I'm sure that's fine although again, not sure if HCN would agree! There is probably a gray area around 'reverse engineering' a database schema...
Moving data should be fine, however a lot of software companies would consider the database schema the same as or part of their code base and in fact a well optimised/secure system would probably use a lot of stored procedures which are pieces of software. Hugh > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of syan tan > Sent: Tuesday, 24 October 2006 8:11 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] SQL schema for billing > > would a conversion routine which read the original schema and > moved data to a cleanroom schema be violating copyright ? > > On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:37 pm, Richard Hosking wrote: > > Its not the schema you want - just the data. As far as I know this > > remains the property of the Dr concerned. But I would think > you need > > to know the layout of the DB to get it. > > > > R > > _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
