For Ely's calendar, all files contain the following disclaimer:
/*Copyright (c) 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. */ Seems pretty straight forward to me, especially the "sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software" portion. Brendan On 2/6/07, Jeffry Houser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I didn't think of that. It is completely contradictory to what I said, but you might be right. I suppose it depends what is going on. At 03:52 PM 2/6/2007, you wrote: That's an awesome topic and I'd love to hear more about it. My current understanding is that any published work comes under copyright protection, and that would necessitate permission from the author before incorporation into a commercial work, if there is no explicit licensing info provided. -Scott On 2/6/07, *engkee* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have to commend you all for posting a lot of wonderful components and extensions to Flex... eg. Ely's calendar, Doug and Jason's tab navigator extensions, Ben and Trey's reflection effect, Alex's distortion effect, just to name a few. Unfortunately, in these day and age, I would have to ask... am I allowed to incorporate those wonderful works in commercial products? Am I even allowed to look at the source code, if I work for a company producing commercial software, without violating some IP issues. Most of them are not explicitly associated with any specific licensing terms. Sure would be nice if there could be some standard practice of associating these works with a common license, eg. the Creative Commons ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/) Maybe there already is some presumed license or disclaimer for "published" works. If so, please send a pointer. Just a thought. -Engkee -- : : ) Scott -- Jeffry Houser, Software Developer, Writer, Songwriter, Recording Engineer AIM: Reboog711 | Phone: 1-203-379-0773 -- My Company: < http://www.dot-com-it.com> My Podcast: < http://www.theflexshow.com> My Blog: < http://www.jeffryhouser.com> Connecticut Macromedia User Group: < http://www.ctmug.com>
-- Brendan Meutzner Stretch Media - RIA Adobe Flex Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stretchmedia.ca
