We have always been open and vocal about what we have been doing.
I'm sure the guys at Macromedia are well aware, and IMHO it might actually be beneficial for them in the long run to have a healthy open source server people can use with their flash apps.
As far as we are aware reverse engineering a communication protocol through observation is legal.
Some examples: AMF, Samba, MSN, AIM, open office, jakarta poi, wine, ...
-- Luke
On 10/23/05, Peter Elst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Same situation as the AMF format I guess -- I'm relatively confident
there won't be any problems with Macromedia (as several of them are on
the list and they probably would've pulled the plug early on).
Hope Adobe will be as supportive about open source initiatives once they
own the technology.
- Peter
José Francisco Rives Lirola wrote:
> I think Red5 might have some problem if Macromedia wants. Macromedia
> don't share the rtmp specs but if you spy the protocol sniffing the
> transmisions
> you can know how the protocol work and you do the same ;-). This is
> named Reversed Engineering.
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