[DB-SIG] Looking for Stephen Turner, maintainer of informixdb

[Eric Brunson]

Read the license.  If he's released it under GPL or BSD, then you could, 
in all good faith, release a fork of the code until he surfaces.

Carsten Haese wrote:

>Hello everybody:
>
>I have discovered that the functionality for connecting Python to an
>Informix database is currently in a frustrating state of neglect. The
>link to Kinfxdb is dead, and informixdb doesn't build on Python 2. I
>couldn't find any usable workarounds to the build problem, so I worked
>out successfully how to build informixdb using distutils.
>
>Now I'd like to share the result with the community, but the maintainer
>appears to have gone missing. My emails to sjturner at ix.netcom.com and
>stepturn at mediaone.net have bounced back undeliverable, so now I'm
>posting to the lists trying to locate Stephen.
>
>If anybody has any pointers for locating Stephen Turner, please let me
>know. If Stephen can't be located, I'd be willing to take over the
>project, but I'd prefer the torch be given to me rather than me just
>taking it.
>
>Thanks,
>
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