Bug 156208

Summary:	(Re-)Distribution of x11-misc/gaia - "improper usage of licensed data"
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Torsten Veller (RETIRED) <tove>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) <fauli>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	major	CC:	infra-bugs
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Torsten Veller (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-11-25 04:40:41 UTC

<http://gaia.serezhkin.com/>:

"25 November 2006, we've got the letter from Michael Jones, the Chief Technologist of Google Earth, Google Maps, and Google Local search, requesting us to cease reverse engineering and improper usage of licensed data that Google Earth use. We understand and respect Google's position on the case, so we've removed all downloads from this page and we ask everybody who have ever downloaded gaia 0.1.0 and prior versions to delete all files concerned with the project, which include source code, binary files and image cache (~/.gaia)."


We should remove gaia-0.1.0.tar.bz2 from our mirroring system too.

Comment 1 Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-11-26 01:34:03 UTC

Yeah, see my last planet post.  Removed gaia from CVS.

Comment 2 Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-12-04 02:28:58 UTC

Version 0.1.1 is in Portage now.  This uses NASA World Wind and so has no possible copyright issues anymore.