On 2/11/13 1:31 PM, "Philippe Mouawad" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hello,
> We had a need to use Amazon S3 API with STS within a flex mobile project.
> We found this library:
> - http://code.google.com/p/as3awss3lib/
>
> Which does partly the job.
> We extended it to be able to use Amazon Security Token Service.
>
> We think this can be quite useful to Flex users and we would like to donate
> the patch mentionned here:
> - http://code.google.com/p/as3awss3lib/issues/detail?id=16
>
> But we didn't get any answer from the project nor from main contributor
> Christian Cantrell (
> https://twitter.com/ubikingenierie/status/296357399172882432)
>
> Maybe somebody on this mailing list can help us on this.
>
> As license is hard to understand and not clear regarding what can be done
> with the code, we don't know if we can fork the project on GITHUB.
>
> Any help is welcome.
>
I am not a lawyer, so this is not legal advice. You may want to hire the
services of an attorney versed in IP and open source licenses.
That said, the BSD 3-clause license seems to indicate that you can fork it
onto GitHub as long as you retain copyright notices of the original authors
and any binaries can produce those copyright notices.
--
Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
