When I will be next time RM in Flex or Royale project and license issue occur I'm not going to wait for answer, but immediately raise Legal jira. Right now it is a waste of our time to make an attention to something which seems to do not going to bring us any problems with law.
Does that make sense ? 2018-04-20 17:20 GMT+02:00 Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com.invalid>: > You are going to make up copyright law by having an "or" in the copyright > statement and somehow think that makes things better? > > The release has the ASF header for this file. I believe Adobe owns this > code. I believe have the right to donate this code on behalf of Adobe. > The release is therefore correct. Does anybody else disagree? I don't > think your changes of adding an "or" are conformant to copyright law > anywhere. > > Thanks, > -Alex > > On 4/20/18, 12:00 AM, "Justin Mclean" <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > IMO, we'd be better off having these files donated to Apache so the > header > > does not need to change. There is no need to keep it as third-party > since > > the original author hasn't touched it in years. I'm pretty sure it > is ok > > for me to just say it is owned by Adobe and thus donated. We've > done > > this in the past without a whole SGA. It is just a couple of files. > > I’ve changed the headers IMO it better to comply with ASF legal policy > than not to. If you want retroactively get them donated I believe you would > need to confirm that Adobe does own the copyright and check on legal > discuss if that’s OK. I’ll change the headers back to ASF ones for you if > they need to be. > > I put the copyright as "Copyright 2011 Piotr Walczyszyn or Adobe” as > although he was working for Adobe at the time this was his personal blog > and I don’t know the what the terms of his contact with Adobe was or how > employee/employer copyright ownership works under Polish copyright law. (He > was based in Poland according to his blog.) > > Re "There is no need to keep it as third-party since the original > author hasn't touched it in years.” I think you find that copyright lasts a > little longer than that :-) I’ve no idea what it is in Poland but here (and > the US) it’s life of the author + 70 years. > > Thanks, > Justin > > -- Piotr Zarzycki Patreon: *https://www.patreon.com/piotrzarzycki <https://www.patreon.com/piotrzarzycki>*
