Well it was less than great because someone here applied online several times but could not actually get the installer. Then we had a chat with Lee Brimelow (http://theflashblog.com/) <http://theflashblog.com/>, he passed our request on and we got the installer within a day or two. So I would recommend talking to him or another evangelist to help the process. Steve
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Jim Hayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How easy was it to get the licence to distribute the flash player? > > Anecdotally, I'd heard this was rather hard to do in practice, but maybe > this has changed since I last enquired a couple of years back. > > This has always been a stumbling block for various solutions I've tried > over the years. > > > > -----Original Message----- > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On > Behalf Of *Steve Mathews > *Sent:* 21 November 2008 15:48 > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Embedding Flash Player > > > > You can get a license to distribute the installer from Adobe. Then just > silently install the player you need when installing your application. > Unless there is something I don't know about the 'Plugin' version of the > installer. We are doing exactly this but we are targeting windows only (C# > app + Flash 9 ActiveX msi). > > > > Steve > > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 3:48 AM, Jules Suggate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hi list, long-time-no-post :) > > I've a gnarly one here. > > I contract to a VC funded startup formed to create a cross-platform desktop > client. Unfortunately AIR's APIs are not low-level enough (e.g. you can't > burn a CD with AIR). We've looked at Zinc, Shu Player, Janus and the rest > but Zinc and Janus don't support MacOS very well and the legal issues around > Shu Player make us wary of using it. This is a consumer-facing app and needs > to be squeaky clean. > > How about embedding the NPAPI FP10 in a Java process? That would be > cross-platform, and we could use NPRuntime to interact seamlessly from Java. > > The Flash Player license allows us to automate download of the FP10 > installer, however these are the problems we still face: > > · If a user doesn't have the player installed, there will be a > two-step install process (one for the player, one for our app), which is > sooo 90s > > · We can't legally change the install location of the NPAPI > plugin, so if we automate downloads of the NPAPI FP10 and the user doesn't > have Mozilla installed it's unclear what we should do > > · Not sure if we can specify the kind of Player (NPAPI vs ActiveX) > to download from adobe.com if the user is on Windows > > Even for the base case (a user with Mozilla and the NPAPI FP10 plugin > installed prior to install of our app), should we talk this over with Adobe > legal? > > Has anyone heard of Adobe entering into custom licensing agreements for > this kind of thing (and I mean, actual bonafide true stories, not conjecture > based on Adobe's licensing page making passing reference)? > > Hope this hits someone's cache! > > Cheers, > Jules > -- > Jules Suggate > Owner and Technical Lead > Uphill Sprint Limited > > +64-21-157-8562 > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This communication is from Primal Pictures Ltd., a company registered in > England and Wales with registration No. 02622298 and registered office: 4th > Floor, Tennyson House, 159-165 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 5PA, UK. > VAT registration No. 648874577. > > This e-mail is confidential and may be privileged. It may be read, copied > and used only by the intended recipient. If you have received it in error, > please contact the sender immediately by return e-mail or by telephoning > +44(0)20 7637 1010. Please then delete the e-mail and do not disclose its > contents to any person. > This email has been scanned for Primal Pictures by the MessageLabs Email > Security System. > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > -- > Flexcoders Mailing List > FAQ: > http://groups.ya<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt> > ... > > [Message clipped]
