Great. It no way was I saying that we should have delayed anything while ironing out these details.
Regards, Dave > On Apr 20, 2018, at 11:57 AM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com.INVALID> wrote: > > FWIW, I confirmed with the author that this code is Adobe-owned. Consider it > "donated". > > Thanks, > -Alex > > On 4/20/18, 8:36 AM, "Piotr Zarzycki" <piotrzarzyck...@gmail.com> wrote: > > When I will be next time RM in Flex or Royale project and license issue > occur I'm not going to wait for answer, but immediately raise Legal jira. > Right now it is a waste of our time to make an attention to something which > seems to do not going to bring us any problems with law. > > Does that make sense ? > > 2018-04-20 17:20 GMT+02:00 Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com.invalid>: > >> You are going to make up copyright law by having an "or" in the copyright >> statement and somehow think that makes things better? >> >> The release has the ASF header for this file. I believe Adobe owns this >> code. I believe have the right to donate this code on behalf of Adobe. >> The release is therefore correct. Does anybody else disagree? I don't >> think your changes of adding an "or" are conformant to copyright law >> anywhere. >> >> Thanks, >> -Alex >> >> On 4/20/18, 12:00 AM, "Justin Mclean" <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >>> IMO, we'd be better off having these files donated to Apache so the >> header >>> does not need to change. There is no need to keep it as third-party >> since >>> the original author hasn't touched it in years. I'm pretty sure it >> is ok >>> for me to just say it is owned by Adobe and thus donated. We've >> done >>> this in the past without a whole SGA. It is just a couple of files. >> >> I’ve changed the headers IMO it better to comply with ASF legal policy >> than not to. If you want retroactively get them donated I believe you would >> need to confirm that Adobe does own the copyright and check on legal >> discuss if that’s OK. I’ll change the headers back to ASF ones for you if >> they need to be. >> >> I put the copyright as "Copyright 2011 Piotr Walczyszyn or Adobe” as >> although he was working for Adobe at the time this was his personal blog >> and I don’t know the what the terms of his contact with Adobe was or how >> employee/employer copyright ownership works under Polish copyright law. (He >> was based in Poland according to his blog.) >> >> Re "There is no need to keep it as third-party since the original >> author hasn't touched it in years.” I think you find that copyright lasts a >> little longer than that :-) I’ve no idea what it is in Poland but here (and >> the US) it’s life of the author + 70 years. >> >> Thanks, >> Justin >> >> > > > -- > > Piotr Zarzycki > > Patreon: > *https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.patreon.com%2Fpiotrzarzycki&data=02%7C01%7Caharui%40adobe.com%7C8addf80cbb874dad350008d5a6d476b5%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C0%7C636598353810889864&sdata=xtr3InvAhOKjB9cz3HJWjey54eEWJFxtGX15oNv2pnI%3D&reserved=0 > > <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.patreon.com%2Fpiotrzarzycki&data=02%7C01%7Caharui%40adobe.com%7C8addf80cbb874dad350008d5a6d476b5%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C0%7C636598353810889864&sdata=xtr3InvAhOKjB9cz3HJWjey54eEWJFxtGX15oNv2pnI%3D&reserved=0>* > >
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