Is there any progress in donating flexmojos to Apache? I am stuck because of GPL and I cannot go forward and use 6.0.1 as my company is not allowing to use GPL licensed software.
Thanks & Regards Gautam Pandey On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > > On 1/25/13 7:12 AM, "Greg Reddin" <gred...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 3:35 AM, christofer.d...@c-ware.de < > > christofer.d...@c-ware.de> wrote: > > > >> So ... does this have any impact on the plans to donate? Is it now > harder > >> to donate or does it make stuff even easier? > >> > > > > To my knowledge the current licensing strategy of the product has no > > bearing on its donation. My assumption is that, by donating it, Velo > > asserts that he has intellectual property rights to the software, and > he's > > passing those rights on to Apache. Apache can then relicense the software > > if/when we get ready to release it. > But I would say it means that a donation is now required. My idea of > having > you just borrow code from its current repository is now void because you > cannot borrow GPL code. > > Also, there could be some trickiness in that Velo has to be certain that he > has the right to re-license the code as Apache license. Whether he does > that before or after donation may not matter, but effectively, it is being > re-licensed. I don't know the GPL terms and what contributor agreement he > had, but that might dictate whether he has the authority to re-license. > > Finally, do we really have to have this code? How many of us committers > will actually make changes to and release from this code base? If it just > Chris, then I would argue we don't really have a community around it. I am > not motivated to work on what has been described as a old monolithic beast, > but I would be more willing to help out with the new code for the Apache > Flex releases. > > So, the way I see it, Velo has to re-license to Apache one way or another > or > we have to find a way not to copy significant portions of that code. > > -- > Alex Harui > Flex SDK Team > Adobe Systems, Inc. > http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui > >
