> Sure in essence it´s still reverse engineering, but as they are cool with it > ? Or am I missing another point here ?
I think that it's reverse engineering is precisely /why/ they have /no choice/ but to be cool with it. I-am-not-a-lawyer, but AFAIK RE is OK, especially for protocols, and especially in the EU. You don't think Microsoft 'is cool with' Samba, do you? :) Mark On 5/10/07, Ralph Hauwert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OS is what all the cool kids are on now-a-days ;-) > > But on topic; I always thought AMF & RTMP where both as closed source ? > > Point being, that now the whole remoting thing is gone into FDS, Adobe is > pretty cool about AMFPHP and the likes, right ? > > Sure in essence it´s still reverse engineering, but as they are cool with it > ? Or am I missing another point here ? > > -R > > > On 5/9/07, John Grden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > this is a copy of an email I posted recently: > > > > http:// osflash.org/red5/fud > > > > we've heard that several times - in that same order "developers love that > we're so fired up about RTMP, lawyers, not so much" > > > > Truth is, the wowza guys, one of them, used to work for adobe. Before he > started Wowza, he walked in and showed them what he was going to build and > handed them a letter. They said nothing at all. > > > > Red5 is open source, we've documented our processes, and we feel great > about all of it. Adobe probably won't come out and endorse Red5, but I do > believe that RTMP is pretty low on the radar these days. I won't be > surprised when they release the RTMP spec. > > > > Wowza is 1 of 2 companies that I've heard about doing a for-profit version > of FMS. So, with that, I think we can feel a touch better about the whole > "yeah half of adobe thinks its cool, but the lawyers aren't so keen" > discussion. I personally think that discussion is old, and not been > updated. > > > > Also, Adobe is incredibly OS minded. They quite a bit of OS stuff > themselves. Especially since the merge. > > > > hth, > > > > John > > > > > > On 5/9/07, Damien Cayzac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm developping an commercial application with RED5. What are the risk > to use RTMP ? It's legal ? > > > > > > Sorry for my English ! > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > osflash mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > [ JPG ] > > _______________________________________________ > > osflash mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > > > > > > -- > Ralph Hauwert > _______________________________________________ > 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
