Re: [flexcoders] Tamarin, Adobe open source the Flash player ?

[John C. Bland II]

The Flash Player is not open-sourced. The AVM was donated to Mozilla.http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/On 11/7/06, 
Ian Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:













  


    
            Hi Tom,
  Just came across the same thing myself - that's a stunning
contribution, if I'm reading it right.

It basically looks like Adobe are providing the source of the AVM2
bytecode interpreter/runtime engine to Mozilla so that Mozilla can use
it as the execution engine for their ECMAscript/_javascript_ engine
(SpiderMonkey).

Doesn't look like open sourcing the Flash player, I'm afraid tho'. :-)

Ian

On 11/7/06, Tom Chiverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200611/110706Mozilla.html
)
>
> I can't work out if this is effectively open souring the Flash Player (as Sun
> is doing with Java) or not.
>
> It seems they've opened up the bits that take Flash bytecode (a .swf) and turn
> it into native code inside a plugin.
> I think ( Mozilla FAQ: "Source code [for] ActionScript Virtual Machine
> (AVM2) ... in Adobe Flash Player 9, including the Just In Time (JIT) runtime
> compiler" ).
>
> The Mozilla FAQ isn't the clearest thing I've read this morning, but I've only
> had one tea, so does anyone else want to try ?
>

      

    
    










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