There is nothing bad about the flash format. If it works in a free player
I'm not aware of any other objections.

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Amir Elisha Aharoni <[email protected]
> wrote:

> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 19:39, Aryeh Gregor
> <[email protected] <simetrical%[email protected]>> wrote:
> >> This looks like MW can use flash 10 and its swf format. I asked Adobe
> >> about this question. I let you know what there answere is.
>
> I am not a lawyer and I am not speaking on behalf of MediaWiki
> developers or the WMF, but there's a simple practical problem: the
> format may be open, but if you cannot actually use this WYSIWYG editor
> with nothing but Free Software, then it cannot be on a WMF project.
> Flash 10 is not Free Software. If this editor will work with an
> appropriately Free Flash player, such as Gnash or swfdec, then it can
> be considered to be included in a WMF project. Is this right?
>
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