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

[Rafael Ortiz]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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This is troublesome, as also some of the distro packages of this have gpl
licences on it.

on doubt we should wait for a lawyer perspective.
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