Re: [osflash] Free-as-in-freedom version of EventDispatcher?

Tue, 04 Oct 2005 13:38:32 -0700

Hey Alias,
 
Whilst it's not really a direct alternative for EventDispatcher, as2lib (as2lib.org) includes classes for dealing with the process of dispatching and listening for events. (check out SimpleConsumableEventBroadcaster).
 
Rich

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alias
Sent: 04 October 2005 21:24
To: Open Source Flash Mailing List
Subject: Re: [osflash] Free-as-in-freedom version of EventDispatcher?

As I said - nebulous. Macromedia have repeatedly, informally stated that they have no intention of suing anyone, and I don't reallistically fear any lawsuits from MM/Adobe any time soon, but if I'm working on an OS project, I'm inclined to protect myself any any potential users from potential issues in the future, and I wouldn't want the project to fail on the basis of it's usage of someone else's code....

Also, (although I haven't checked yet) I suspect MTASC might object to elements of EventDispatcher.

I'm looking into gDispatcher now, but I'm wondering if that's just subject to a different set of restrictions...

Alias


On 10/4/05, Moses Gunesch < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> since it's subject to nebulous MM licencing agreements...

Hmm.. this is really pertinent to my open source Fuse classes. Is it
illegal for me to use built in macromedia classes, even
EventDispatcher, in my code distributed under an open source license?

Can someone who really knows the legalities give any sort of black &
white answer on this?

I mean I could see that this may be the case, however if people are
using Flash they are using Macromedia code; therefore it is sort of a
gray area when they are using classes distributed for all users of
Flash. Especially since no one is reselling the code under open source.

Speaking of which, related question - of all the licenses available
is there a license that allows unlimited free use but NOT direct
repackaging and reselling of the code, except when used for its
intended purpose, as part of a project? I am a little uncomfortable
with the MIT license in that it says it's okay to directly resell the
code - this seems like the opposite of the open source ethic.

Thanks,
Moses Gunesch
www.mosessupposes.com



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