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

[Walter Bender]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Samuel Greenfeld <greenfeld at laptop.org> wrote:
> 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.

Bradley at the SFC agreed to look into it for us.

-walter
>
>
> 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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