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

[Frederick Grose]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Rafael Ortiz
<rafael at activitycentral.com>wrote:

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

>
>> 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.
>

We should ask Google to adopt it as a starting point for one of their
distributions.

          --Fred
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