On 5/17/12 2 :51AM, "Christophe Herreman" <christophe.herre...@gmail.com> wrote:
>2012/5/16 Christophe Herreman <christophe.herre...@gmail.com> > >> >> >> 2012/5/16 Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> >> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 5/16/12 10:09 AM, "Christophe Herreman" >>><christophe.herre...@gmail.com >>> > >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> > The scripts Carol provided are working as far as I tested. Are you >>> > proposing to drop them? (Sorry if I misunderstood.) >>> > >>> If they work, great. But if we get a lot of bugs on them, I would vote >>> for >>> dropping them. Also, there might be a licensing issue with the >>>vbscripts. >>> >> >> Sounds reasonable. I can check if there is a license issue and if so >>I'll >> provide alternatives to the scripts. >> > >This is most likely no longer relevant since the VB scripts have been >removed from SVN, but I wanted to post it for completeness sake. On the >author's website [1] of the scripts, I found the following: > >"Unless stated otherwise, these pages, the scripts presented and their >sources are copyrighted freeware. >You may modify them, as long as a reference to the original code is >included in the modified code." > >I'm not sure if there is a definition of "copyrighted freeware" as I could >not find any. I guess you just have to reference the original sources as >mentioned in the above text. > >[1] http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ I saw all that. Apache has a pretty explicit list of what is allowed and I wasn't sure that would cut it. In any case, thirdparty software is special case and requires special handling and special documentation in NOTICE and LICENSE so it is best to avoid it if there are other alternatives. Aside from the potential copyright issue I didn't like the "script" being 3 files. Carol > > >> >>> >>> -- >>> Alex Harui >>> Flex SDK Team >>> Adobe Systems, Inc. >>> http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Christophe Herreman >> http://www.herrodius.com >> http://www.springactionscript.org >> http://www.as3commons.org >> > > > >-- >Christophe Herreman >http://www.herrodius.com >http://www.springactionscript.org >http://www.as3commons.org
