[ASLO] Please, give an answer

[Rafael Ortiz]

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at sugarlabs.org>
> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-11-01 at 16:43 -0400, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> >> On Sat, 2011-10-29 at 18:51 -0500, Rafael Ortiz wrote:
> >>
> >> >         I spoke with Bradley about this today. He agreed that there
> doesn't
> >> >         seem to be any issue with the code itself. He is going to ask
> the new
> >> >         SFC lawyer if he sees any problem with the end-user license
> for the
> >> >         data (which incidentally Google does not own). Open Street
> Map data of
> >> >         course would be preferable but in the meantime, I think we
> are not in
> >> >         violation by including the software in ASLO.
> >> >
> >> > Ok nice to know. this activity should be public then.
> >>
> >> The file gpl.txt actually seems to refer to a small binary shipped
> >> alongside Google Earth:
> >>
> >>   http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=518959
> >>
> >> I could ask for more information internally, but I'm afraid we can't
> >> publish this activity on activities.sugarlabs.org.
> >
> > Ok, I spoke with some people. They told me that the GPLv2 applies to
> > GPSBabel, which is a separate executable.
> >
> > The actual license covering the main Google Earth binary is this:
> >
> >  http://www.google.es/intl/en_us/earth/download/ge/agree.html
> >
> > Section 2(c) explicitly forbids redistribution.
> >
> > Daniel: they told me that they'll check if it's possible to provide you
> > a redistribution license for the Sugar activity, but if it's not free
> > software we can't redistribute it from the Sugar Labs servers.
> >
> > --
> > Bernie Innocenti
> > Sugar Labs Infrastructure Team
> > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team
> >
> >
>
> Thanks for checking. Rafael, can you please remove it from ASLO?
>
> thanks.
>
> -walter
>
>
On it thanks..



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> Walter Bender
> Sugar Labs
> http://www.sugarlabs.org
>
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