On 11/26/12 1:55 AM, "Frédéric THOMAS" <webdoubl...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Because when you go to the download page, you have to accept the licensing
> terms. Maven doesn't have any support for forcing people to accept
> licenses. One option available to us is to provide Adobe with a Maven
> plug-in that will force a licensing dialog (once per machine, I suppose).
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> Yes, it could be a solution even if it's not really in the maven spririt,
> let me understand something as I'm really noob in legal stuffs like
> licenceing, spring and hibernate are widely used in the java word, mainly
> via maven, the both have a licence, an apache licence for one and a gnu
> lesser general public licence for the second, shouldn't force people to
> accept their licence ?
Apache and GPL are relatively open licenses. The Adobe license is pretty
restrictive and Adobe legal feels like you need to acknowledge that.
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> Are this big companies really not using anything that doesn't have an open
> license?
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> Yes, they do that with some artifacts but that's exeptions
How much would it limit our success if the AIR SDK is one of these
exceptions?
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> - Fred
>
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Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
