Raju, Good question. We are working with the Adobe lawyers to help us with the license compatibility issues, including between the Adobe opensource license and the Apache license.
Adobe has a company shutdown from tomorrow until after the New Year, so while Alex and I are busy preparing for incubation, the Adobe lawyers are not around to help us for a couple of weeks. Carol -----Original Message----- From: Raju Bitter <rajubit...@googlemail.com> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:04:05 -0800 To: "general@incubator.apache.org" <general@incubator.apache.org> Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Flex for Apache Incubator >Carol, > >The legal stuff page for the Flex SDK >(http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Legal+Stuff) mention 3 >different downloads: > > * Free Adobe Flex SDK > * Open Source Flex SDK > * Adobe Add-ons for Open Source Flex SDK > >Is the SDK version which will be contributed to Apache the "Free Adobe >Flex SDK" or the "Open Source Flex SDK"? > >Since the add-ons contain "Adobe Flash Player, Adobe AIR, the advanced >font encoding libraries, and the code that allows licensing of things >like the Data Visualization components", I would assume that Apache Flex >will mainly be the Open Source Flex SDK? > >Raju > >On 12/20/11 10:56 PM, Carol Frampton wrote: >> Marcel, >> >> Alex and I are currently working with one of Adobe's IP lawyers to >>examine >> our code dependencies and determine what license issues we may have and >> how best to resolve them. >> We will be better able to answer your question in a few weeks. >> >> Carol >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Marcel Offermans<marcel.offerm...@luminis.nl> >> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:58:04 -0800 >> To: "general@incubator.apache.org"<general@incubator.apache.org> >> Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Flex for Apache Incubator >> >>> Hello Alex, >>> >>> On Dec 19, 2011, at 21:20 PM, Alex Harui wrote: >>> >>>> I would like to propose Flex to be an Apache Incubator project. >>>> >>>> Here's a link to the proposal: >>>> http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/FlexProposal >>> >>> First of all, thanks for this proposal, it looks well thought out. I >>>have >>> a question about the list of third party dependencies (a list you're >>> still compiling). Out of interest, could you please also include some >>> indication of the licenses of those dependencies, and how easy or hard >>> they would be to replace by open source equivalents (when appropriate)? >>> >>> Greetings, Marcel >>> >>> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
