Re: [Wiki] Code conventions

2012-03-12 Thread Jeffry Houser
It depends.. Under US Copyright work; any modifications are derivative works. In writing, I haven't the foggiest idea how much needs to be changed to make it 'separate'. In music, the "common knowledge" is that you need four bars to make something unique. That means, you can copy less

Re: [Wiki] Code conventions

2012-03-12 Thread John Fletcher
Once you modify a piece of writing enough, it's legally a separate work isn't it? John

Re: [Wiki] Code conventions

2012-03-11 Thread Alex Harui
On 3/10/12 11:00 AM, "Martin Heidegger" wrote: > Thanks Alex, > > lets see what to do about this. I guess I don't want to bother the Adobe > lawyers ... as they > have (a lot) more important things to do. Which leaves it open to write > a new one *yey*. I am not > sure when I will start with

Re: [Wiki] Code conventions

2012-03-10 Thread David Francis Buhler
I was going to suggest trying to find an existing style-guide from an open-source project. Perhaps the Apache Flex project can use the Android Style Guide if the project itself uses an Apache License. Then, in my research, I found many projects simply refer to a simpler style-guide for naming conve

Re: [Wiki] Code conventions

2012-03-10 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, It might help to take a look at the Flex Formatter property file I placed up on the whiteboard.[1] This should be fairly similar to Adobe format stye and is mostly human readable. Thanks, Justin 1. http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/flex/whiteboard/jmclean/formatting/format.properties

Re: [Wiki] Code conventions

2012-03-10 Thread Martin Heidegger
Thanks Alex, lets see what to do about this. I guess I don't want to bother the Adobe lawyers ... as they have (a lot) more important things to do. Which leaves it open to write a new one *yey*. I am not sure when I will start with that. Any work I will do will be based on current code and not

Re: [Wiki] Code conventions

2012-03-10 Thread Alex Harui
I'm pretty sure it is not legal to copy a webpage without permission, and getting permission will currently require our legal folks to get involved. Recently I asked for permission to publish an internal spec and that got blocked by requiring legal review. Bertrand said he'd help me get a blanket

Re: [Wiki] Code conventions

2012-03-10 Thread Paul Evans
On 10 Mar 2012, at 15:31, Martin Heidegger wrote: > There is a reason why I wrote the "Getting Started" area in the wiki. It > should answer exactly what you asked for. > *Please read the wiki* https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLEX/Getting+Started

Re: [Wiki] Code conventions

2012-03-10 Thread Martin Heidegger
Hello Sumit, There is a reason why I wrote the "Getting Started" area in the wiki. It should answer exactly what you asked for. *Please read the wiki* Short summary: If you want to commit, commit. There is no need to wait. You can submit patches via jira[1] create discussable forks via github

Re: [Wiki] Code conventions

2012-03-10 Thread sumit arora
Martin, I am saying I want to be the part of flex-dev team for making changes in flex sdk for releasing next version. I have been working in flex for almost 5 years now and know about sdk in depth. so whom should I contact for this. Regards, Sumit Arora On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Martin He

Re: [Wiki] Code conventions

2012-03-10 Thread Martin Heidegger
On 10/03/2012 23:51, sumit arora wrote: Sure, Hi Martin, I am new to project and want to help for same. can you tell me how contribute for same. Hello Sumit, Did you read [1]? Basically for the code conventions to get juicy we should have them at a place where we can edit/comment on them. I

Re: [Wiki] Code conventions

2012-03-10 Thread sumit arora
Sure, Hi Martin, I am new to project and want to help for same. can you tell me how contribute for same. On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Martin Heidegger wrote: > Hello Adobe team, > > I was planning to copy the code conventions of the Adobe wiki to the > Apache wiki so we can start extending/

[Wiki] Code conventions

2012-03-10 Thread Martin Heidegger
Hello Adobe team, I was planning to copy the code conventions of the Adobe wiki to the Apache wiki so we can start extending/finishing it. I was wondering about the legal implications. any thoughts? yours Martin.