Folks - OLPC already has a license from Adobe to redistribute Adobe Flash. We can provide that to any deployment that requests it; if a deployment decides they need it, we don't need to force them to install it themselves.
However, Adobe pointed out that since OLPC's Linux distro (a Fedora Remix) is not a supported platform, they're not interested in bug reports unless they are reproduced on stock Fedora and reported as Fedora bugs. Having spoken to Adobe about this, I found absolutely no evidence that anyone there's eager to do anything specific for OLPC XO laptops. I also made no effort to sell them on the idea; I just wanted to be sure that if a deployment decided on their own that they needed to provide the Adobe Flash player, OLPC wasn't unreasonably making it harder than necessary for them. - Ed On Mar 24, 2010, at 8:53 AM, Reuben K. Caron wrote: > > On Mar 24, 2010, at 7:52 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Reuben K. Caron >> <reu...@laptop.org> wrote: >>> IMHO, OLPC would be able to provide deployments with the option of >>> including >>> Adobe Flash, while continuing to include Gnash as default >> >> There are some aspects that are outside of OLPC control >> >> - We need RPMs from Adobe -- in the case if AIR, they are not >> available. Carlos and anyone else interested _must chase Adobe_, not >> OLPC. > > Yes and no. Anyone technically capable to rebuild our build system, as > you mention below, will be able to easily script the installation of > AIR. > >> - Licensing issues need to be sorted out. Carlos and anyone >> interested _must chase Adobe_, not OLPC. > > No again, OLPC should have done the legwork so deployments don't have > to jump through the hurdles of obtaining licensing from Adobe. > >> >> - If Adobe cares about running well on XOs, Adobe should ask for >> laptops through the contributors programme (like everyone else!). >> Carlos any anyone interested must chase Adobe on that. > > I'll work with Carlos on this. > >> With those 2 sorted out, it's damned trivial to add it to an 8.2.x >> build (using my latest patches to install arbitrary rpms), and thanks >> to the more flexible build system for f11 builds it's trivial to add >> it to an XO-1.5 image. >> >> There is noone at OLPC blocking this. Go folks, go lobby Adobe. > > Agreed. > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel