Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-incubator-flex-dev-archive@minotaur.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-flex-dev-archive@minotaur.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1FF77D416 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:09:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 12461 invoked by uid 500); 26 Nov 2012 16:09:50 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-flex-dev-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 12333 invoked by uid 500); 26 Nov 2012 16:09:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact flex-dev-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list flex-dev@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 12316 invoked by uid 99); 26 Nov 2012 16:09:49 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:09:49 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (nike.apache.org: domain of aharui@adobe.com designates 64.18.1.238 as permitted sender) Received: from [64.18.1.238] (HELO exprod6og122.obsmtp.com) (64.18.1.238) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:09:39 +0000 Received: from outbound-smtp-1.corp.adobe.com ([192.150.11.134]) by exprod6ob122.postini.com ([64.18.5.12]) with SMTP ID DSNKULOULkI8d+5rzcgzxZNkxrRdxP6wD8p9@postini.com; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:09:19 PST Received: from inner-relay-4.eur.adobe.com (inner-relay-4.adobe.com [193.104.215.14]) by outbound-smtp-1.corp.adobe.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id qAQG6Q1v015807 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:06:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from nahub02.corp.adobe.com (nahub02.corp.adobe.com [10.8.189.98]) by inner-relay-4.eur.adobe.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id qAQG9FXL014900 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:09:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from NAMBX02.corp.adobe.com ([10.8.127.96]) by nahub02.corp.adobe.com ([10.8.189.98]) with mapi; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:09:15 -0800 From: Alex Harui To: "flex-dev@incubator.apache.org" Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:09:26 -0800 Subject: Re: Who's a flex compiler-configuration pro on this list? Thread-Topic: Who's a flex compiler-configuration pro on this list? Thread-Index: Ac3LvDB1rv0xsmSZSg2fA1wGNa5NIAANDd6K Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: user-agent: Microsoft-Entourage/13.13.0.120411 acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org On 11/26/12 1:55 AM, "Fr=E9d=E9ric THOMAS" wrote: >> Because when you go to the download page, you have to accept the licensi= ng > terms. Maven doesn't have any support for forcing people to accept > licenses. One option available to us is to provide Adobe with a Maven > plug-in that will force a licensing dialog (once per machine, I suppose). >=20 >=20 > Yes, it could be a solution even if it's not really in the maven spririt, > let me understand something as I'm really noob in legal stuffs like > licenceing, spring and hibernate are widely used in the java word, mainly > via maven, the both have a licence, an apache licence for one and a gnu > lesser general public licence for the second, shouldn't force people to > accept their licence ? Apache and GPL are relatively open licenses. The Adobe license is pretty restrictive and Adobe legal feels like you need to acknowledge that. >=20 >=20 > Are this big companies really not using anything that doesn't have an ope= n > license? >=20 > Yes, they do that with some artifacts but that's exeptions How much would it limit our success if the AIR SDK is one of these exceptions? >=20 >=20 > - Fred >=20 --=20 Alex Harui Flex SDK Team Adobe Systems, Inc. http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui