<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Rafael Ortiz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rafael@activitycentral.com">rafael@activitycentral.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Walter Bender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" target="_blank">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><div></div><div>On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Bernie Innocenti <<a href="mailto:bernie@sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">bernie@sugarlabs.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Tue, 2011-11-01 at 16:43 -0400, Bernie Innocenti wrote:<br>
>> On Sat, 2011-10-29 at 18:51 -0500, Rafael Ortiz wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> > I spoke with Bradley about this today. He agreed that there doesn't<br>
>> > seem to be any issue with the code itself. He is going to ask the new<br>
>> > SFC lawyer if he sees any problem with the end-user license for the<br>
>> > data (which incidentally Google does not own). Open Street Map data of<br>
>> > course would be preferable but in the meantime, I think we are not in<br>
>> > violation by including the software in ASLO.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Ok nice to know. this activity should be public then.<br>
>><br>
>> The file gpl.txt actually seems to refer to a small binary shipped<br>
>> alongside Google Earth:<br>
>><br>
>> <a href="http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=518959" target="_blank">http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=518959</a><br>
>><br>
>> I could ask for more information internally, but I'm afraid we can't<br>
>> publish this activity on <a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">activities.sugarlabs.org</a>.<br>
><br>
> Ok, I spoke with some people. They told me that the GPLv2 applies to<br>
> GPSBabel, which is a separate executable.<br>
><br>
> The actual license covering the main Google Earth binary is this:<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.google.es/intl/en_us/earth/download/ge/agree.html" target="_blank">http://www.google.es/intl/en_us/earth/download/ge/agree.html</a><br>
><br>
> Section 2(c) explicitly forbids redistribution.<br>
><br>
> Daniel: they told me that they'll check if it's possible to provide you<br>
> a redistribution license for the Sugar activity, but if it's not free<br>
> software we can't redistribute it from the Sugar Labs servers.<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Bernie Innocenti<br>
> Sugar Labs Infrastructure Team<br>
> <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team</a><br>
><br>
><br>
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</div></div>Thanks for checking. Rafael, can you please remove it from ASLO?<br>
<br>
thanks.<br>
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-walter<br>
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</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Done, the activity is no longer public-visible.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5"><div></div></div></div><div>On it thanks..</div><div class="im"><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div>--<br>
Walter Bender<br>
Sugar Labs<br>
<a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a><br>
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