On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Walter Bender <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Samuel Greenfeld <[email protected]> > 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 <[email protected] > > > > wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Peter Robinson <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Walter Bender < > [email protected]> > >> > wrote: > >> >> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 6:20 AM, Peter Robinson < > [email protected]> > >> >> 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 > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Sugar-devel mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > > > > > > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > 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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