Sounds like gobbledygook to me. Should I just ask Bob to give his okay to be sure? I think the code he wrote was on his own time…
On Apr 16, 2013, at 11:37 PM, Alex Harui wrote: > > > > On 4/16/13 11:17 AM, "Harbs" <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> There's one other issue with my code: >> >> All the code is mine with the partial exception of NativeComboBox. >> >> NativeComboBox was the result of a discussion between Bob Stucky (a friend >> and >> Adobe employee) and me. I observed that there were extensions created by >> Adobe >> that had dropdowns that extended beyond the bounds of the panels, and >> wondered >> how to accomplish that. Bob realized that NativeMenu could be used and wrote >> an implementation. I have since greatly modified his original >> implementation, but the original implementation was his. Do we need his >> permission recorded here? >> > If you have doubts after reading this, then we should contact Apache Legal > as only they can give the official ruling. > > But I think as long as you give attribution in the NOTICE file and include > the CC_NC_SA license and the Adobe modifications in the LICENSE file (see > [1]), you do not need explicit permission. Apache Legal has ok'd CC_SA > licensed works but they did not explicitly ok the NC license (see [2]). I > thought the NC part was a deal-breaker [3], but then Adobe overrides that in > their modifications [4]. > > Here are some links for your reading pleasure: > [1] > http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html#best-practice-lice > nse > [2] http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html > [3] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ > [4] > http://www.adobe.com/communities/guidelines/ccplus/commercialcode_plus_permi > ssion.html > > -- > Alex Harui > Flex SDK Team > Adobe Systems, Inc. > http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui >
