On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 22:49 -0600, Rob Savoye wrote: > http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/05/01/adobe_open_access_protocols/ > > > Adobe's licensing had acted as a bottleneck, as you were allowed to > > read the specifications and able to build using SWF but prohibited > > from building software for SWF file playback. Or, as McAllister put > > it, you: "Couldn't build anything that looked or smelled like a Flash > > player - only Adobe could do it." > > > > As of May 1, though, you can build your own Flash player and embed > > Flash into an application, which is particularly handy because it > > means you no longer need to rely on Flash running in the browser, > > with resulting performance and network availability issues. > > It looks like we may now legally be allowed to read the swf > specifications, as well as work on Gnash without problem. I've been > bugging Adobe about this for over a year, maybe we're finally getting > somewhere. :-) We'll need a real legal opinion, but I think this will > let people contribute to Gnash even if currently we'd consider them > "contaminated".
http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2008/04/licensefree_spec.html http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200804/050108AdobeOSP.html But yes, IANAL. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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