Mike, I am concerned that your comments will cause even more uncertainty. How can the open source community know what MM or another company considers 'over the line'? What are sensitive areas?
Are the AMFPHP projects over the line? If not, why not? If yes, why so? How does the answer to this question relate to rmtp? There's a lot of uncertainty here, at least in my view. Thanks Stefan > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Mike Chambers > Sent: 26 October 2005 16:28 > To: Open Source Flash Mailing List > Subject: Re: [osflash] Legal Considerations That Concern Us All > > 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/mailmn/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
