[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Google Earth-1

[Samuel Greenfeld]

There is some debate to that on various mailing lists.

Some of the support libraries used are known to be be LGPL or GPL based,
but in the case of one GPL program (gpsbabel) is known to be isolated as a
seperate executable.  Other items like Qt potentially could have be
licensed via alternative means.

The EULA at http://www.google.com/earth/download/ge/agree.html forbids
redistribution, so the entire package might not be GPL'd.

Someone would have to contact Google to figure out what's going on.


On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 6:20 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> Are we really allowed to use the name "google earth"?
> >>
> >> Good question. Not sure. We should probably choose a Sugar-ized verb
> >> name anyway.
> >
> > And looking at the ASLO page it states that its GPLv2. I very much
> > doubt that to be the case!
>
> I am pretty sure it is GPL. The map data is not, but the software is.
>
> -walter
>
> >
> > Peter
> >
>
>
>
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