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From: Alex Harui <aharui@adobe.com>
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Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 14:19:13 -0700
Subject: Re: [MENTORS] Third Party source
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On 6/7/12 1:58 PM, "Greg Reddin" <gredbug@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Incubator,
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> See the email below from Alex Harui. I need help figuring out what to do =
here.
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> I'm not sure if Jeff was ever an employee of Macromedia or what the
> full situation is. Perhaps Alex can clarify if needed.
Jeff was an employee of Macromedia and Adobe but left before Adobe donated
his code.
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> Essentially, we wanted to offer Jeff commit rights to make the
> modification as suggested by Roy. But Jeff indicated he's too busy to
> do it. Since he owns the copyright and seems willing to donate the
> code, what would be the appropriate methodology here. Do we need a
> software grant? Would it be sufficient to have an ICLA on file from
> Jeff?
Adobe already donated the code with Jeff's permission, but with Jeff's
copyright still in the headers per [1], which also says we should not modif=
y
the copyright in those headers without his permission.

"Should a project move non-ASF copyright notices from Apache source files t=
o
the NOTICE file?
No. If the copyright owner is still involved with the project, they should
move the notice themselves or permit us to do so..."

[1] http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html
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Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui


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