Hello Rob, please excuse that you got no life sign from me for quite a while now. As said, I'm very busy at work (Nov/Dec is usually the worst time of the year). But see below..
Thursday, November 9, 2006, 2:06:44 AM, you wrote: >> Regardless of whether I might do the right thing in respect to the >> EULA and/or local rights, I can't be involved in any lawsuit because I >> simply have no 8 months of time left. RS> I don't think this would be your problem, it's mine. So I'd assume for RS> now to just keep doing things the way you have been, and I'll try to RS> work out the issue. It just might take a while... I hope I don't start again a discussion that's already answered in another post in the meantime. However, are you sure about this? At the end, it's /me/ having "agreed" to the licence... RS> The plugin wouldn't work very well on an embedded device anyway. The RS> big difference between many embedded devices and a browser plugin is RS> that a company may ship millions of devices. MacroMedia preferred to get RS> paid a licensing fee for every single copy. This is a traditional RS> business model for embedded systems. Free software has upset this model, RS> which is why many companies are switching to embedded Linux. So if you RS> ship millions of devices, they wanted millions of dollars. Yep, and if you ship less, it's not interesting for them... :-/ RS> Adobe, however, has always supported people utilizing their documented RS> formats like PDF and Postscript, and doesn't even charge per device, RS> like say a Laser printer. (at least I don't think they do, I've been out RS> of the printer biz for 16 years) I believe they prefer to make their RS> money on the content creation tools instead. Since Adobe never attacked RS> Evince, Xpdf, Gpdf, Ghostscript, etc... I assume Gnash is fine too. I'd RS> still like a legal opinion, or word from Adobe so I can relax. Any news? Udo _______________________________________________ Gnash mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash
