On 1/15/13 6:23 PM, "Justin Mclean" <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Also my reading of the license rules under "Scenarios Involving Prohibited
> Works" it states.
>
> "YOU MAY ALSO include a feature within an Apache product that allows the user
> to explicitly choose to download an optional third-party add-on, as long as
> that feature also alerts the user of the associated license."
Playerglobal is not optional so this doesn't apply. We got a ruling that
playerglobal is a build prerequisite.
>
> Under build scripts is also states:
>
> "YOU MAY ALSO include within an Apache product a documented, non-default,
> build option to allow users to explicitly choose to validate, retrieve, or
> configure any system requirement for an Apache product, provided that such
> option is not likely to be confused with the standard product build and that
> any resulting retrieval of a prohibited work is accompanied by a clear
> identification of its associated license."
I think the key word here is "choose", which I think you are doing with the
y/n option you added, because that helps make the identification of its
license more "clear".
>
> As this is not part of the standard build script I don't think we need to ask
> to accept any license but we do need to display it.
>
> However I've added a hit Y to accept prompt to the script to be doubly sure
> and I'll checked it in. Tell me if you agree that we don;t need it and I'll
> remove the prompt.
Well, in a script, I'm not sure how you can display such that someone can
read it without stopping, so I think you will need a y/n.
>
> How exactly is playerglobal.swc licensed?
It appears to be under Adobe Flex when bundled with Adobe Flex and under the
FlashPlayer EULA when you download from the FP downloads page.
> I was unable to find a specific
> license for it on the Adobe site. Is there a URL for it's license? For now I
> put in the Adobe SDK license and stated that "The playerglobal.swc is part of
> the Adobe Flex SDK and covered by it's license." is that correct? If not free
> free to correct.
Probably good enough.
Thanks for making the changes.
--
Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
