Re: [ossig] CA open-sources Ingres database - News & Technology -CNETAsia

[Dinesh Nair <dinesh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 27 May 2004, Kenneth Wong wrote:

> outside its scope". So "right to use" doesn't fall under the GPL, huh?
> Wierd.

wouldnt google give (as part of it's own appliance license, whatever that
is) a right to use to the user ? if google doesnt give this right to use,
then under what rights is the user using the appliance, even by connecting
to it ?

> I don't claim Google would not be required legally to distribute the
> code. I'm saying I don't know for sure. It's ambigious.

unfortunately so, it is ambigious. and sadly will remain so until FSF
specifically disallows/allows it in GPLv3 or the current versions of GPL
are tested in a court of law.

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