So what is stopping me from making my own parser and offering libraries on my won github account that is not tied to Apache?
With IDL parser, if I made my own parser could that be used at Apache? Mike On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 6:51 PM, Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote: > HI, > > > Good. All of these pieces seem to be Apache compatible. > > Sorry but that may not actually be the case. > 1) The file has no licence header [1] and from the header seems it may be > part of the CanvasJS project [2] which is a paid for product [3] and also > has an EULA [4] which doesn’t look apache comparable to me. > 2) If you look at the file history you'll see that it was contributed by > mover5 [5] who looks like from the email address on his gthub to be a > Microsoft employee. Depending on his employment contact Microsoft may or > may not own the code. > > This is the issue with code found on github in that the provenance in a > lot of cases can be unclear. > > Thanks, > Justin > > 1. > https://github.com/borisyankov/DefinitelyTyped/blob/master/canvasjs/canvasjs.d.ts > 2. http://canvasjs.com/ > 3. http://canvasjs.com/license-canvasjs/ > 4. http://canvasjs.com/eula/chart/ > 5. https://github.com/mover5
