Re: Bug#400070: RFP: gaia -- Google Earth client

["Fabricio \"aybabtu\" Cannini" <aybabtu_me@yahoo.com.br>]

Em Saturday 25 November 2006 22:23, Petter Reinholdtsen escreveu:
> [Bill Allombert]
>
> > Someone should grab gaia-0.1.0.tar.bz2 from Google cache and then
> > claim that Google distributed the software under the GNU GPL.
>
> Hehe.  Doubt that will have any effect, though. :)
>
> It will not address the problem for the most interesting material,
> though, as the google map data isn't GPL, and can not be claimed to be
> GPL.  And a google earth clone is rather useless without permission to
> fetch data from google.
>
> I recommend earth3d and the NASA worldwind spinoffs if you want free
> map data. :)

Call it a n00b question (ok, it IS a n00b question :) ,
but if the whole problem is about google's data, 
why don't google GPLs the program (google earth) ?

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