You have no way of determining that the original came from as3corelib and not the other way around. Mike Chambers was an Adobe employee and the code he wrote belongs to Adobe. Adobe can license it however they want. In fact they donated it to Apache, so there are no issues.
Thanks, Harbs > On Apr 23, 2017, at 5:36 AM, Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote: > > Hi, > >> As I already responded, IMO there are none. > > The code original comes from a 3rd party and is BSD licensed [1] > > So why: > 1. Does our file have an Apache header? [2] > 2. Is the BSD license in question is missing from the LICENSE file? [3] > > It seems to me quite likely that Adobe may of changed the header prior to > donation perhaps legally perhaps not. Is there any way we can find out the > history pre donation? There is a history of Adobe being a little loose with > IP / licensing in unit tests. > > Looking at the directory [4] there may be another files having the same issue > - IntUtil.as > > The easy solution as allways it to add the license to LICENSE and in that > case it at worse becomes a documentation issue rather than a licensing issue. > > Thanks, > Justin > > 1. > https://github.com/mikechambers/as3corelib/blob/master/src/com/adobe/crypto/MD5.as > > <https://github.com/mikechambers/as3corelib/blob/master/src/com/adobe/crypto/MD5.as> > 2. https://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#3party > <https://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#3party> > 3. http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#permissive-deps > <http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#permissive-deps> > 4. > https://github.com/apache/flex-tlf/tree/develop/automation_core/src/UnitTest/Validation > > <https://github.com/apache/flex-tlf/tree/develop/automation_core/src/UnitTest/Validation>
