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Re: Update xearth image or remove it



On debian-devel, Detlev Zundel <ua3m@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
> Good idea. Xplanet can also produce amazing pictures by superimposing day
> and night images of the earth. Unfortunately the night images are not
> without copyright so they cannot be distributed - but the author of
> xplanet has some very nice day+night images. The superposition of those
> (with some markers on top) should not be copyrighted. We can ask him to
> render an image for us with his maps (I talked to him and he's
> delighted..)

How can an image of the Earth be copyrighted? I hate the evil capitalist state
we live in. Blair and Clinton preach about freedom, when somebody can
copyright an image of the Earth we have no freedom.

(Yes, I know this rant has no place on Debian lists.)
-- 
I consume, therefore I am

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