Again, a license can only be imposed on someone who **AGREES** to the license.
If I got my information from **anywhere** other than from macromedia, I cannot be held liable. This is basic contract law. I cannot be held responsible for a contract I did not sign - or in the case of click wrap, "acknowledge" by clicking that I accept. As a result, this is a very weak tool that is more designed to intimidate than to provide any real legal protection. It is also designed to muddy the waters so there will be conversations like this that will make people afraid. What it is *not* designed to do is to give Macromedia a solid leg to stand on if anyone should come out with a competing player. Regards Hank On 12/29/05, Jonas Beckeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In my opinion, the purpose of this license clause is to make > > sure there will be only *one* Flash Player (as a browser > > plug-in) and as far as I'm concerned, that's ok.. > > I wonder what their stance is when it comes to SWF->XAML. An OS project that > makes XAML files from SWFs could be a very real threat in a few years' time. > > Don't they have to come down hard on anything that converts SWF to any open > format? As long as that exists, someone else can always take the output and > create a player without risk. For browser playback, XAML is probably their > only worry, but what a worry that is... With that on the horizon I can > imagine that they'll soon be a whole lot more aggressive in protecting the > player. > > I also wonder how the legal side of things work for individuals outside the > US ;) > > /Jonas > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.9/216 - Release Date: 2005-12-29 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
