Yes. As long as no one else can claim ownership of the content or code, the author can donate it to Apache whenever you would like.
Michelle ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michelle Yaiser Instructional Designer | Creative Cloud Learning Adobe Systems | myai...@adobe.com | 781-839-1697 -----Original Message----- From: Nicholas Kwiatkowski [mailto:nicho...@spoon.as] Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 5:08 PM To: dev@flex.apache.org Subject: Re: Flex content on the Adobe Developer Connection For those of us who were authors and wouldn't mind our content being migrated over -- how do you think we should proceed? Do we just have the rights to donate it to Apache? -Nick On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Michelle Yaiser <myai...@adobe.com> wrote: > Hi, Everyone. > > I just heard from legal about getting the approval to donate Flex > content that was published on the Adobe Developer Connection to Apache. > > We can only donate the articles, tutorials, and examples - and the > code in them - that are written by Adobe employees. That means we > can't donate any of the content written by non-Adobe authors. All > external authors select a Creative Commons license and sign a NELA > (license agreement). Those licenses only give Adobe the right to post the > content on Adobe sites. > Ownership of the content is retained by the author. The owner is the > only one who can donate the content to Apache. > > There have been mixed opinions on what, if any, ADC Flex content would > be useful for Apache Flex users. You can find most of the content on > the ADC from one of the two links below. If you tell me that getting > all content written by Adobe or Adobe employees is helpful and what > Apache Flex wants, I will start prepping it for donation. > > * http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex.html > > * http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/article-index.html > > > > Related, we are almost done with all the prep work that needs to be > done in order to donate the Flex documentation. If anyone has any > familiarity with Framemaker and GEP, you'll know that getting content > out of those systems into a useful format is not easy and is very time > consuming. We'll be donating: > > * Using Flex: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flex/using/index.html > > * non-Flash Builder chapters of Accessing Data with Flex< > http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flex/accessingdata/index.html> > > > I'm happy to answer any questions. > Cheers, > Michelle > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------- > Michelle Yaiser > Instructional Designer | Creative Cloud Learning Adobe Systems | > myai...@adobe.com | 781-839-1697 > >
