It was not a criticism, but a real question about how complicated it would be to donate just the code for those components without any other code from Flex 5. I was hoping this could be not very hard to do. I'm aware of the hard work they are doing and I want to thank them for it, sorry if I gave another impression.
Haykel On 1 March 2012 16:35, Roland Zwaga <rol...@stackandheap.com> wrote: > > > > How complicated is it to donate those components to Apache? I would > prefer > > to see these components donated asap even if they are incomplete so that > > the community can decide whether they will be used as is, modified or > > reimplemented. > > > > As stated before, Carol and Alex are just as much a victim of the > legalities that surround > the donation of the code and the time that it takes for each line of code > to be cleared by > Adobe's legal department. I don't think it is helpful to give them a hard > time over it since > it is completely out of their hands. > They're doing their very best, let's keep things friendly. It sucks having > to wait, but bitching > about it won't make things more pleasant, I'm afraid... > > cheers, > > Roland >