Clarification on conflicting license headers (BSD vs proprietary Adobe notice)
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- C++
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Description
Hi Adobe team,
The root LICENSE file indicates that this project is under the BSD-3-Clause license, which is great. However, some individual files (like XMPCore/XMPCoreDefines_I.h) include a notice stating:
// Adobe permits you to use, modify, and distribute this file in accordance with the Adobe license agreement...
Could you please confirm whether these files are also intended to be under the BSD-3-Clause license? Or are they still governed by a separate Adobe license? This clarification is crucial for legal compliance in downstream use.
Thanks in advance!
Contributor guide
Research direction
Review the root LICENSE alongside the Adobe notice in XMPCore/XMPCoreDefines_I.h. Confirm with the project’s licensing guidance or maintainers whether the notices are compatible or require separate treatment. Done means the repository clearly documents the applicable license for these files.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100