Hello,

Thanks for answer, but source code contains the following, where do you see
BSD licensing ?  :


/*
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Please read this Source Code License Agreement carefully before using
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promote products
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You agree to indemnify, hold harmless and defend Adobe Systems Incorporated
from and
against any loss, damage, claims or lawsuits, including attorney's
fees that arise or result from your use or distribution of the source
code.

THIS SOURCE CODE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "WITH ALL FAULTS", WITHOUT
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BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS
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*/

Regards


On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com>wrote:

> HI,
>
> > 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.
>
> The original code is licensed under the BSD license which is fairly
> permissive. By my reading it would allow you to fork the project on GItHub
> as long as you kept the original BSD license with that code.
>
> See
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses#Proprietary_software_licenses_compatibility
>
> The BSD license is compatible with the Apache License so code under the
> BSD can be donated to an Apache project.
>
> Justin




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