This may or may not be a real problem. Note the following commit comment:
commit c317ffb1446d821727a453b317fdaf0a7d634d4f
Author: Gord Tanner <[email protected]>
Date: Sun Oct 20 22:37:34 2013 -0400
Remove Images that were not able to licence apache.
When BlackBerry first opensourced Ripple there was some problems
with them open sourcing the images of their phones. I have removed
all the images that BlackBerry put in of their phones and removed the
notice and Readme.
This should help us get closer to being able to do an Apache release
Here's a little more background. Originally there was a file named NOTICE in
the assets/client/images folder containing the following text:
The images and logos provided in this project are proprietary to their
owners, excluded from the Apache 2.0 license, and cannot be used for
any other purpose.
Note that this wording does not indicate which images are considered
proprietary. Based on Gord's comment, I'm going to guess that he has reason to
believe that it's only the device skins that were actually considered
proprietary.
Later this NOTICE file was copied to assets/server/images. Later still the
device skins were removed, and the NOTICE file was removed from
assets/client/images, presumably by the above commit.
Today the NOTICE file remains in assets/server/images, but I believe this is an
oversight. There are no phone images in that folder, only the Ripple logo.
There is a Ripple logo in asserts/client/server, so it follows that if the
files in assets/client/server are now OK then the files in
asserts/server/images are also OK. Therefore the NOTICE file should be removed
from assets/server/images.
I don't know of my own knowledge whether this removes the last barrier to doing
an Apache release. Gord's comment says his change "gets us closer", so perhaps
that means he has in mind some other cleanup.
Julian
-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Grobmeier [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 12:00 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Why no releases?
I haven't it right here, but I asked before ages on this list.
I think its pretty much everything which is an image used for letting the
browser look like a phone
If nobody else here can comment, I will try to find the email from the archives
--
Christian Grobmeier
[email protected]
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014, at 16:46, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) wrote:
> Thanks Christian. I guess that is something we need to fix. Is there a
> list of these resources that need replacing anywhere handy?
>
> Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.
> A subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Grobmeier [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 8:34 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Why no releases?
>
> One of the issues I am aware of is that we are not having the right to
> redistribute some images. We need to replace them
>
> --
> Christian Grobmeier
> [email protected]
>
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014, at 16:30, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) wrote:
> > I note that Ripple has not made any releases as yet. Why is this?
> >
> > Sent from my Windows Phone
