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From: Alex Harui <aharui@adobe.com>
To: "flex-dev@incubator.apache.org" <flex-dev@incubator.apache.org>,
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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 11:17:09 -0800
Subject: [MENTORS] CCLAs and Software Grants for LLC's? (was Re: Kick
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Thread-Topic: [MENTORS] CCLAs and Software Grants for LLC's? (was Re: Kick
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Hi Mentors,

My mental model of the rules say that if a corporation owns a copyright, we
need a CCLA covering the contributor and donations should have a software
grant.  But what about LLCs?  Especially one-person LLCs?

Thanks,
-Alex

On 11/14/12 11:00 AM, "Jeffry Houser" <jeffry@dot-com-it.com> wrote:

> On 11/14/2012 1:02 PM, Alex Harui wrote:
>> @Jeffry, If someone hooked up the autocomplete logic to a proprietary
>> natural language processing library, that would probably be a problem, b=
ut I
>> doubt that will be the case.
>=20
>   AutoComplete functionality is currently exposed via a filterFunction
> property; which works just like the filterFunction on an
> ArrayCollection.  The default filterFunction we provide uses regex.
>=20
>> What I am concerned about, though, is that it
>> is based on your Flextras Autocomplete, so I think that means you/we hav=
e to
>> make sure the copyrights are handled correctly and proper paperwork is f=
iled
>> for any code copyrighted to a legal entity other than you.  Are the
>> copyrights in the existing code to Jeffry Houser or some other entity th=
at
>> you control?
>=20
>   Technically the copyrights are owned by DotComIt, LLC which happens to
> be a single person company owned by me.
>   My intent was to just add the Apache headers to the code and commit
> them to my whiteboard.  My intuition is that this will not be a "huge"
> code base.  But, if necessary I can fill out a formal software grant.

--=20
Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui