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by **cvill64** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 22:24

Huzzah,

Our day of spying has come!

http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html

beta installer for linux now available for all your snoopers out there

by **barcode_linux** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 6:39

I have been waiting for this!! sawweeeet!

by **lxnay** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 7:27

Very nice, but I've read the license and if I am right, we can't redistribute that application. So, can't be included in Sabayon I think.

Any opinion?

by **barcode_linux** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 7:54

From the license:
You agree that you will not, and will not allow any third party
to, (i) copy, sell, license, distribute, transfer,
modify, adapt, translate, prepare derivative works
from, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble or
otherwise attempt to derive source code from the
Software, unless otherwise permitted, blah, blah ,blah...

So, "unless otherwise permitted" means that we would have to get special permission from Google to redistribute.
Or atleast, that is the way that I see it.

barc

by **lxnay** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 8:00

Yes, right. Any Google founder here

?

Clearly not. It was a nice application though...

by **barcode_linux** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 8:05

Could we not, just ask them? (in written form, of course)
It would be nice to be the first linux distro with google earth preinstalled

But then again...

by **lxnay** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 9:47

I've written to icculus (icculus.org).
Let's see...

by **lxnay** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 19:31

Ehiii, the solution is quite simple. Let the user read the license and accept it or not.

It is already in Gentoo portage, does this mean, redistribution?

by **barcode_linux** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 19:39

well, if it is in portage, then I say include it. But make a script in the Kmenu (or gnome) that installs it and make the user accept the agreement, then delete the install script and insert a link to the binary in the Kmenu...if that makes sense. But I say if it is in portage, then it must be able to redistributable.
Maybe gentoo devs read the license different than we do.

by **cvill64** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 20:23

Damn! That's fast!

Well...two things: if its in portage they could have gotten permission and if its in portage, then users can d/l it if they want it...I don't know, personally I don't use it and I'd rather it not take up space...but I don't know, just my opinion.

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