Hello Mike. I'd like to ask you about MX v.2 Components Patch project hosted at the OSFlash site.
http://www.osflash.org/mx_v2_components_patch Is it actually legal to distribute patching scripts for Macromedia sources? Regards, Igor -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Chambers Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 4:03 AM To: Open Source Flash Mailing List Subject: Re: [osflash] Legal Considerations That Concern Us All - Was: Re: MTASC Future The question / issue is not whether an open source compiler, or some other open source project around Flash is good for the platform. The issue is whether those projects are breaking EULAs, or other laws / license agreements. Any company / individual has to weigh the good (more tools around the platform) verses the bad (setting a precedent of not protecting its intellectual property / etc, which may make more difficult to protect it in the future). As far as OSFlash, this is a site, server, domain and list controlled by Aral (the server is in his name). Ultimately, he is responsible for the content on those sites. So, he potentially takes significant risk by allowing people to post content on the wiki, and code in the repository. I would hope everyone on the lists understands this and acts responsibly. If I were him (which I am obviously not), I would ask every new project the following question before they were allowed to post content: Are you 100% sure that you are legally allowed to distribute the code and content that you are distributing. (this is basically what WikiPedia does). mike chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Irrelevant Elephant wrote: > Patrick Mineault wrote: > > Although probably far too premature for discussion, an open source AS3 > compiler would also fill a small void. I think Macromedia can rest > assured that the chances of the open source community seriously > rivalling Flex are pretty much zero, and for the most part people will > buy Flex for the entire platform - not just the compiler, and not just > for access to the 8.5 player. An open source compiler opens up options > for those developers who do not wish to use the Flex platform - which is > by no means applicable in every situation. _______________________________________________ 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
