In the sense that these projects have deconstructed 'closed' protocols (no official specification released) in order to provide functionality that did not previously exist. And that the projects have made the source code to do this freely available.
Mark raises a potential distinction between a protocol and the swf file format, to be honest I had not thought of that. Like Mark I too am not a legal expert at all. In this case perhaps wiser to err on caution and wait for MM's spec. -Thomas -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Chambers Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 4:35 PM To: Open Source Flash Mailing List Subject: Re: [osflash] Legal Considerations That Concern Us All - Was: Re: MTASC Future Why do you assume they have no issues? mike chambers Thomas Wester wrote: > Thanks for the heads up Aral. > > However I fail to see a clear connection with the MTASC future > discussion. The Red5 or amfphp projects have no issues with > deconstruction the AMF protocol I can't see how deconstructing a f8.5 > .swf is any different. > _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
