FWIW, I confirmed with the author that this code is Adobe-owned. Consider it
"donated".
Thanks,
-Alex
On 4/20/18, 8:36 AM, "Piotr Zarzycki" <piotrzarzyck...@gmail.com> wrote:
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
>
>
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