Hi. My intent was not to spread any FUD. However, this is an important issue, and one which hasnt really been discussed.
One thing that I have personally seen over the past couple of months is people becoming more and more bolder about talking about reverse engineering protocols, tools, formats etc. This starts to get into sensitive areas. At some point, the conversations / actions are going to go over the line, and Macromedia or some other company will have to respond. That is not something that I think that anyone wants. The assumption in the OSFlash community seems to be that because we haven't done anything in the past, that ANYTHING is ok. You can see this in the all comments pointing to AMFPHP as justification that other projects are "ok". You can also see this in the comments on the Screenweaver blog: -- In practice though, distribution of the player with swf2exe's has always be condoned. -- (http://www.vanrijkom.org/archives/2005/08/licensed_to_fla.html) i.e. because we haven't done anything in the past, people are assuming we will never do anything, regardless of what is going on. mike chambers _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
