Again, I am not an authority, but I believe permissive licenses like
Apache and MIT allow for re-licensing.  The question is, which work do you
want to include?

-Alex

On 9/9/14 3:10 PM, "OmPrakash Muppirala" <bigosma...@gmail.com> wrote:

>Okay, time to reset this conversation.  I was digging deeper and found a
>comment on the class in svgweb that mentions that this code actually came
>from the Degrafa library [1]
>
>Degrafa is released under MIT license [2].
>
>I guess this means that we still have to add this under the subcomponents
>area in the LICENSE file, right?
>
>Thanks,
>Om
>
>[1]
>https://code.google.com/p/degrafa/source/browse/branches/Origin/Degrafa/co
>m/degrafa/geometry/utilities/ArcUtils.as?r=187
>[2] https://code.google.com/p/degrafa/
>
>On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com>
>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Please do not do this. There have been several incubator projects who's
>> release candidates have been rejected for including Apache licensed
>> software in LICENSE. If something is Apache licensed 3rd party or not
>>there
>> is no need to add it to LICENSE. [1]
>>
>> > Yes.  And we should make a note that it is third-party in the LICENSE
>> file
>> > by adding:
>> >
>> > --------
>> > APACHE FLEX SUBCOMPONENTS:
>> >
>> > The Apache Flex Installer includes a number of subcomponents with
>> > separate copyright notices and license terms. Your use of the source
>> > code for the these subcomponents is subject to the terms and
>> > conditions of the following licenses.
>> >
>> > The Elliptical Arc algorithm is available under Apache License 2.0.
>>For
>> > details
>> > see <path to file>
>> >
>> > --------
>>
>> Justin
>>
>> 1.http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#alv2-dep

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