> I believe the key paragraph in Mike's post is the one about not > setting a precedent of not enforcing IP rights. Even if they wouldn't > mind us doing it, or even would see the benefit it would have for > everybody affected, they must keep up the possibility to enforce it > against third parties which follow completely different interests. >
I agree. And I think it might very well be illegal to disassemble the compiler. I am not sure, but it, at least *might* be. But disassembling swf files, which are clearly your own property, cant be illegal. As I said in an earlier post, this would be like Microsoft telling Macromedia to be carful with how they used, or examined or reverse engineered the output from the Microsoft Visual Studio compiler. Compiler vendors cannot claim any ownership regarding how the resulting compiled code is used. This would put everyone at the mercy of Microsoft, including Macromedia. This is of course silly. It is equivalently silly to suggest that we cannot disassemble swfs to figure out what the new byte codes are. Though, I have to agree that if they have stated they are going to release the spec, time is probably better spent on things like lexical analysis vs code generation. Regards Hank _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
