[ASLO] Please, give an answer

[Rafael Ortiz]

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Rafael Ortiz <rafael at activitycentral.com>wrote:

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> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at sugarlabs.org>
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>> > On Tue, 2011-11-01 at 16:43 -0400, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
>> >> On Sat, 2011-10-29 at 18:51 -0500, Rafael Ortiz wrote:
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>> >> >         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.
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>> >> > Ok nice to know. this activity should be public then.
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>> >> The file gpl.txt actually seems to refer to a small binary shipped
>> >> alongside Google Earth:
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>> >>   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.
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>> > Ok, I spoke with some people. They told me that the GPLv2 applies to
>> > GPSBabel, which is a separate executable.
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>> > The actual license covering the main Google Earth binary is this:
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>> >  http://www.google.es/intl/en_us/earth/download/ge/agree.html
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>> > 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.
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>> > --
>> > Bernie Innocenti
>> > Sugar Labs Infrastructure Team
>> > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team
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>> Thanks for checking. Rafael, can you please remove it from ASLO?
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>> thanks.
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>> -walter
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Done, the activity is no longer public-visible.


> On it thanks..
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>> --
>> Walter Bender
>> Sugar Labs
>> http://www.sugarlabs.org
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