On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 19:06, Damien Raude-Morvan <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:01:11 +0200, Joey Parrish <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Note that the Flex SDK itself cannot yet be built from Adobe's source > > code under Debian, even though the code is released under the MPL. > > Adobe's build system relies on Cygwin and some outdated and/or patched > > libraries to produce the binary SDK included in this package. From > > what I understand, this means that this package will have to live in > > non-free until Adobe's source can be built under Debian. > > From my understanding of #602499 ITP, it seems that people inside Adobe > (especially Dave McAllister) are willing to help fixing this kind of > issues. > Have you talked to them about issues you found ? > I first contacted Dave McAllister on Dec. 2, 2010. Since then, I've only gotten him to reply to my emails three times. One of them took 5 months and several "ping! still there?" messages to get a reply at all. So far, the replies have all been along the lines of "I'll check into that and get back to you." Since I am still trying to get him to send an official confirmation on a licensing mix-up [1], I haven't had an opportunity to go deeper and talk about build issues. I was hoping to get the binary package into Debian first, then work on improving it so that it could become part of main. --Joey [1] The SVN source has one license, but the pre-built distribution has another. There is some evidence that someone just packaged it with the wrong license file. (Adobe License vs. MPL)
