[ASLO] Please, give an answer

[Walter Bender]

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Rafael Ortiz
<rafael at activitycentral.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Rafael Ortiz
>> <rafael at activitycentral.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Daniel Francis
>> > <santiago.danielfrancis at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> If you download google earth
>> >> (http://www.google.es/intl/es_es/earth/download/ge/agree.html), a .deb
>> >> file,
>> >> you can extract it and see in the data file, the licence in
>> >> opt/google/earth/free/gpl.txt
>> >>
>> >> Daniel Francis.
>> >>
>> >> 2011/10/28 Rafael Ortiz <rafael at activitycentral.com>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Daniel Francis
>> >>> <santiago.danielfrancis at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> The licence is the GPL version 2.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> 2011/10/28 Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:20 PM, Rafael Ortiz
>> >>>>> <rafael at activitycentral.com> wrote:
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>> >>>>> >
>> >>>>> > On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Daniel Francis
>> >>>>> > <santiago.danielfrancis at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>>>> >>
>> >>>>> >> Hi,
>> >>>>> >> I have nominated an activity, but anybody take an answer about
>> >>>>> >> the
>> >>>>> >> nomination.
>> >>>>> >> Details of nomination:
>> >>>>> >>
>> >>>>> >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/aslo/2011-September/001286.html
>> >>>>> >>
>> >>>>> >> Thanks,
>> >>>>> >> Daniel Francis.
>> >>>>> >>
>> >>>>> > I'm not sure if we can distribute google-earth on ASLO.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Is there a licensing issue?
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> regards.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> -walter
>> >>>>> >
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>> > Walter, IANAL do you have a way to go about this one ?
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>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> --
>> >>>>> Walter Bender
>> >>>>> Sugar Labs
>> >>>>> http://www.sugarlabs.org
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>> The activity part can be gpled but google earth itself has
>> >>> restrictions.
>> >>>    http://earth.google.es/intl/en/license.html
>> >>>>
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>> I can ask Bradley to ask the SFC council tomorrow when I see him. But
>> is seems that from everything that Daniel says, it is GPL. What makes
>> you think otherwise?
>>
>> regards.
>>
> Maybe the end user license..but in doubt is better to ask ;).
>
>>
>> -walter
>>
>> --
>> Walter Bender
>> Sugar Labs
>> http://www.sugarlabs.org
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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.

-walter

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