[Freegis-list] Gaia project interruped by Google

[strk]

On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 02:00:56PM +0100, Maurizio Napolitano wrote:
> From
> 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).

You're kidding, right ? Is this legally enforcable ?

--strk(not respecting Google's position);