Justin's fix for CreateJS typedefs on Unix reminded me... In order to determine which steps I had to go through to try to donate the CreateJS Externs to the CreateJS community, it turns out I had to get a ruling from the Adobe legal team about who owned the "externs" files we generate from CreateJS source. The Adobe legal team determined that these externs files are copyright Adobe because I wrote the scripts that generate them, and that externs files are a list of APIs instead of functional code and thus not a derivative work. Apparently there is some sort of "list" exception. I think that's why other externs authors also claim copyrights and licenses different from the library the externs represent.
So, now the question is, given these files are correctly donated to Apache is it worth it to try to donate them to CreateJS? I've got plenty of other things to spend my time on. Thoughts? -Alex On 10/21/16, 10:31 PM, "Alex Harui" <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > > >On 10/21/16, 9:59 PM, "Justin Mclean" <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote: > >> >>> Still trying to get a response from my legal department. My employment >>> agreement requires a lot of hoops to jump through before anything I >>>create >>> goes to another entity. >> >>Understand that but I'd assume if it's already under an Apache license >>and at the ASF then that would not apply? > >I'm only authorized to donate Flex-related code to the ASF. I'm not >currently authorized to donate to any other communities. Adobe owns the >copyright of anything considered to be my work. > >> >>Otherwise it wouldn’t be compatible with the Apache license as it would >>have further restrictions on it. > >The ASF doesn't like taking code that isn't donated. I gotta go through >this process so CreateJS isn't seen as taking code. You can keep asking >questions about it, but that's the steps I have to take. > >-Alex >
