(Sorry, I'm not a good source for turning legalese into practicalese. But if you're asking if there's precedent for SWF importers, then I remember that a lot of folks have done this over the years. --jd)
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Samuel Agesilas Sent: Wed 8/1/2007 6:36 PM To: Open Source Flash Mailing List Subject: Re: [osflash] SWF9 and FLV File Format Spec released Hmmm... yea I see your point... this is an interesting situation. The way I read the specification you would be in the clear but I'm not sure... any thoughts jd? cheers, Sam On Aug 1, 2007, at 8:29 PM, Robin Debreuil wrote: > >>> Your not prevented from reading a swf >>> you just can't "play" the swf. For >>> example you can't read the swf player >>> opcode and execute it. > > 3. Restrictions > > a. You may not use the Specification in any way to create or develop a > runtime, client, player, executable or other program that reads or > renders > SWF files. > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but that says you can't create and > executable that > reads swf files as far as I can tell. > > I'm all for not having a second set of players, so no for playback is > understandable to me (as I said in the first place). However, if I > create a > graphic, animation, or program in flash, and want to reuse that, > dif it, > convert it, merge two files etc etc, at some point I will need to > read the > swf. It's my work, and the end result is either a generated swf or > nothing > to do with Flash, so I find the 'read' restriction to be really > unfair. > > Cheers, > Robin > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
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