It's PUBLISHED. That's not the same as OPEN. Open formats, like SVG, are generally developed by a standards organisation, with input from any interested parties. Open formats, by definition, can be used without restriction by anyone.
Proprietary formats, like Flash, are defined and controlled by private organisations, like Adobe. They may publish their format spec to encourage use of it, but they don't hand over control of it to a standards organisation. So Flash is a published, but proprietary, format. HTML and SVG, are open formats. Guy On 04/05/2010, at 11:31 PM, Jeffry Houser wrote: > > This is actually wrong. the SWF format is open and documented for all to use > ( http://www.adobe.com/devnet/swf/ ). Are you aware of any restrictions > placed upon use of the specification that do not make it open? > > Adobe's Flash Player, on the other hand, is very proprietary. > > --- In [email protected], Guy Morton <g...@...> wrote: > > > > On 04/05/2010, at 9:39 AM, Oleg Sivokon wrote: > > > SWF is not a proprietary format, > > > > Yes. It. Is. > >
