On Fri, 14 May 2010 05:00:51 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/14/2010 04:32 AM, Camaleón wrote:
>>> You seems to be conflating 3 different entities: 1. Adobe Flash >>> 2. Adobe Flash Player >>> 3. SWF file format >> >> AFAIK: >> >> #1 As per Wikipedia → Licence: Proprietary EULA (it can be wrong, >> though) #2 Adobe Flash Player is closed source, non freely >> distributable, etc... #3 Falls into #1 (is just a "container") > > No. It's a file format, and that file format has (except for Sorensen > Spark) been published. "Published" does not means FLOSS or GPL. I would like to know what is the licence of Flash :-) >> So, what is the current status of Flash technology, which license >> uses...? >> >> > You're still apparently confusing Flash the closed-source authoring > software, Flash the closed-source player software and the > proprietary-but-published (and very complex, with many different file > extensions) SWF file. > > Adobe's SWF license allows others to create "flash" players. No sir, I am not confusing them. Is just Adobe licence of Flash which is not clear enough, I'm afraid. If is "proprietary", we have a problem here. Being proprietary they can stop publishing the specs at any time, at their convenience :-/ Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.05.14.10.38...@gmail.com