Hi Justin, We have it now and are doing the correct thing in a natural way. An Apache Member who was on my first PMC has explained the situation well. He calls it “cups and saucers” when we discovered a single GPL file had been in a few releases we removed it. It is best effort and sometimes things spill.
Shine the light forward. Regards, Dave Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 16, 2018, at 9:16 PM, Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote: > > Hi, > >> Royale is not going to operate like Flex. We want to be more responsive >> to our users. So instead of conducting detailed searches for IP issues at >> release time, they should be done at commit time or at other times. > > The issue has been brought up before so is a known issue. (See that > discussion thread). Given that discussion I would of assumed that committers > wouldn't check in plain text CC-BY-SA licensed content. But I guess people > forget about it, I had even forgotten about that thread. If you where > watching the commits it would be very easy to miss the file(s) in question as > they also incorrectly had an ASF headers on them. But any PMC member or > committer could of noticed this, the fact that no one did until now probably > indicates how difficult it was to find. Perhaps it would be better to deal > with licensing issues when they are raised or soon after - especially when a > 3rd party doesn’t respond in a timely way? > > BTW the legal JIRA about CC-SA content is here [1] not sure if you managed to > find that when looking at the issue. > > Thanks, > Justin > > 1. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-167
