Ok - here's a few of mine:
Can I modify and redistribute these classes? If I do, must I affix the MM copyright notice? For example - can I move these classes into a different namespace, then redistribute the source code under an open source licence? Would that constitute fair use, a derivative work, or an infringement? (It's likely that the Open Source licence would pose more of a problem than the Macromedia one, but I'd like to know)
Could you provide an imaginary hypothetical example of the kinds of circumstances that *would* lead to MM taking legal action?
I must say, the 50 lines of non-comment example code restriction seems a bit random. The material value thing is fair enough, but the material value of, say, moving the class into a different namespace would be pretty debatable, but sometimes necessary or desirable.
Is the Supplemental Licence compatible with the following popular Open Source Licences?
GPL 2
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php
LGPL
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-license.php
Apache Licence 2.0:
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/apache2.0.php
BSD Licence:
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php
Mozilla Public Licence:
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mozilla1.1.php
Apple Public Licence:
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/apsl-2.0.php
Sun Public Licence:
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/sunpublic.php
I've omitted the creative commons licence, because it's a bit unclear as to exactly how this applies to source code.
I'm not trying to make MM run up massive legal bills or anything, I'm just curious.
Cheers,
Alias
On 10/4/05, John Dowdell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Moses Gunesch wrote:
> Can someone who really knows the legalities give any sort of black &
> white answer on this?
I don't think I'm qualified to answer escalation questions on this, but
does this source document help in any way?
http://www.macromedia.com/software/eula/tools/flash_components.html
If not, then is there any kind of FAQ-like question I could propose to
the legal team as an addition?
> Is it illegal for me to use built in macromedia classes,
> even EventDispatcher, in my code distributed under an open
> source license?
For what it's worth, I don't think I'd be able to ask this of Legal
as-is, because they'd want to inspect which actual "open source license"
was in use in this case... if I could cite a particular URL then I think
I could get better results.
tx,
jd
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