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adobe-webplatform / dropcap.js

Beautiful CSS drop caps made easy
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License #4

Closed pettarin closed 9 years ago

pettarin commented 9 years ago

Your current LICENSE.MD states:

Copyright 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved.

and then:

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); ...

If you want to release the code under APLv2, you need to remove the "All rights reserved." sentence, so that the first line reads:

Copyright 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated.

sylvain-galineau commented 9 years ago

'All rights reserved' applies to the Adobe copyright itself, afaik. It's quite common across open-source contributions e.g. https://github.com/winjs/winjs/blob/master/License.txt. Also; I am not a license lawyer. I am merely using the license given to me by people who are. If you can elaborate on what the legal issue is, I am happy to pass it along.

pettarin commented 9 years ago

While technically correct, it might be confusing reading "All rights reserved" and then "Licensed under the Apache etc." in LICENSE.MD, especially since the source code files themselves do not have the "All rights reserved." sentence.

Anyhow, not a big deal, just go with what your lawyers say.

sylvain-galineau commented 9 years ago

To be 100% honest, you're the second person to make this comment since we pushed this out. If the feedback persists I'll eventually have to bug Legal...