On 10/2/16, 6:09 PM, "Justin Mclean" <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote:
>Hi, > >The discussion on legal-discuss has died down [1] and this as I see it >the consensus: >1. Notify upstream and ask them to fix their issue. >2. Only parts of the license that relate to what is actually bundled >needs to be included. >3. When missing retrospectively adding headers and copyright for a 3rd >party file is recommended (but not required). >4. Where copyright is not clear add a header but not the copyright line. > >So given the above are their any objections for me to: >- Fix header and copyright for OpenFL >- Fix header and copyright for CreateJS Assuming "Fix header" means "notify upstream" and work with the third party project until they are satisfied, feel free to do so, but I think you are doing so as an individual, not as a representative of the ASF or the Apache Flex PMC. >- Add header but not copyright for FlatUI (see discussion below) Add header to where? I assume you are planning to contact designmodo as well? -Alex > >I’ll also ask upstream to fix any issues i.e. missing headers for OpenFL >and missing license and copyright clarification for FlatUI. > >For FlatUI there are 14 contributors to the repo [2] one main one (who >looks to be no longer involved) and 3 other significant ones. There’s no >obvious connection between them and designmodo (that I could find) other >than they contributed to this repo. The license was originally CC BY 3.0 >but changed to MIT in 2013 early in the projects history. [3] Their web >site does claim copyright [4] but copyright is not stated on the github >repo (even under the copyright and license section) [5]. So while it may >be reasonable to assume designmodo are the copyright owners it's >certainly possible that the other contributors have claims as well and it >may be that all copyright holders did not give permission for their code >to be relicensed. > >Thanks, >Justin > >1. >https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/201609.mbox/%3 >cd4077465.75c8d%25aha...@adobe.com%3e >2. https://github.com/designmodo/Flat-UI/graphs/contributors >3. https://github.com/designmodo/Flat-UI/issues/18 >4. http://designmodo.com/flat-free/ >5. https://github.com/designmodo/Flat-UI
