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

[Kenneth Wong <ken@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 27 May 2004 17:00, Dinesh Nair wrote:
> 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 ?

Right to use isn't covered by GPL, so even if google grants license to 
use appliance, it doesn't conflict with GPL. Right to use  != 
possession of binary, so GPL share-alike clause doesn't kick in. Or at 
least it can be argued that way. 

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