[Bug 587619] New: Ask Google for permissions to redistribute Google Earth in the non-oss repo
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=587619 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=587619#c0 Summary: Ask Google for permissions to redistribute Google Earth in the non-oss repo Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.3 Version: Factory Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Other AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: richard.bos@xs4all.nl QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/4.3; Linux) KHTML/4.3.5 (like Gecko) SUSE I blogged my attempt build an rpm for Google Earth. The blog is here: http://lizards.opensuse.org/2010/03/09/build-your-own-google-earth-rpm/ Ludwig Nussel commented on the blog, by asking: "has anyone ever asked google for permissions to redistribute google earth in the non-oss repo?" I progated the question to the opensuse-packaging list, that was answered by Andreas Jaeger: "Michael Löffler was in contact with Google some time ago but I don't know why we did not sign an agreement. Michael is on FTO right now, I propose you open a bugreport and assign it to him (michl at novell com) so that he can followup once he returns." http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-packaging/2010-03/msg00029.html Here we're now... Is it possible for you (Michael) to follow this up? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: NA Actual Results: Difficult to install, and GE is not integrated with the rest of the system Expected Results: Install Google Earth via an openSUSE repository -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=587619 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=587619#c Richard Bos <richard.bos@xs4all.nl> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |michl@novell.com |ovo.novell.com | -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=587619 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=587619#c1 Michael Löffler <michl@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED --- Comment #1 from Michael Löffler <michl@novell.com> 2010-04-07 14:48:16 UTC --- Richard, do I understand correctly GE is offering at their download page just offering GoogleEarthLinux.bin which results in a debian package, right? If that's the case we asking for redistribution won't lead to success. GE first need to offer a rpm which we then may distribute in the non-OSS part. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=587619 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=587619#c2 --- Comment #2 from Ludwig Nussel <lnussel@novell.com> 2010-04-07 17:03:39 CEST --- The container they offer doesn't matter. We need to repackage the content anyways. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=587619 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=587619#c3 --- Comment #3 from Richard Bos <richard.bos@xs4all.nl> 2010-04-07 15:11:59 UTC ---
Richard, do I understand correctly GE is offering at their download page just offering GoogleEarthLinux.bin which results in a debian package, right?
No, that is not correct. The bin file, needs to be run by the user to have GE installed in a directory specified by the user. Because of this it will most likely be installed in a user specific location and thus result in a not system wide installation...
If that's the case we asking for redistribution won't lead to success. GE first need to offer a rpm which we then may distribute in the non-OSS part.
For Debian there is a script called make-googleearth-package. This downloads GoogleEarthLinux.bin from http://dl.google.com/earth/client/current/GoogleEarthLinux.bin runs the .bin file and makes a package of it. The script make-googleearth-package add some .desktop and .mime files to the package and it takes care that the GE is system wide available. Thus GE is not providing a .deb package that is done by script. Hopefully this answers your question. If not please let me know! -- Richard -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=587619 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=587619#c4 Michael Löffler <michl@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |RESOLVED Resolution| |WONTFIX --- Comment #4 from Michael Löffler <michl@novell.com> 2010-11-19 12:09:36 UTC --- won't fix -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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