I hope the BBC does not spend licence fee money on the development of Gnash. This money should be spent to benefit the majority of the license payers, not just a very small group.
I'm sure once Gnash has got the capability to run the flash used on the BBC website they will happily support it. Adam On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 22:19 +0100, Dave Crossland wrote: > Hi, > > It seems Gnash is attracting a lot of funding and direct support these days... > > When will the BBC support access to the Flash-based parts of its > websites with free software by helping the Gnash project? > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: James Northcott / Chief Systems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 4 Mar 2008 21:45 > Subject: [Gnash-dev] Gnash, Flash, Adobe, and cash > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hello, > > My business partners and I are currently working on a Linux-based > application that requires Flash playback. > > Adobe has specifically excluded our application from bundling a Flash > player under the terms of their free distribution license, and our > efforts to negotiate some sort of paid licensing agreement have > stalled. At this point, we are looking for alternatives, and it would > seem that helping Gnash would be a viable option for us. > > This leads me to ask the following questions: > > 1. What is stopping the Gnash team from fully implementing the > Flash 9 file format? Where could we help the most? > > I understand there are some legal issues with those who have agreed > to the Adobe EULA making contributions to Gnash. I'm also sure that > there are manpower issues, as well as funding issues. I would > appreciate someone taking the time to explain where the largest issues > lie. We have some programming resources available, although we have > no experience with the Gnash codebase at all, as well as a potentially > large number of sample Flash movies that play correctly in the Adobe > player but not in Gnash. > > 2. What kind of monetary investment would be necessary to > significantly speed up Gnash development? > > I realize that this may be a difficult question to answer, but we are > quite serious. We were prepared to pay Adobe to license their player, > but this seems to have hit a dead end - could our contribution to > Gnash help speed up development, and if so, how large a contribution > would be required to overcome the blockers for Flash 9 support? > > We understand the open source model, and we are not interested in > owning the copyright or changing the license of the Gnash code. We > are simply willing to pay to get Flash 9 playback in our product, if > this ends up being within our budget. > > I appreciate any feedback you have for me. > > James > > > _______________________________________________ > Gnash-dev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev > > > - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
