Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:21:19 +0200 From: Rene Ladan <r.c.ladan@gmail.com> To: Derek Graham <derek.graham@att.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: linux-flashplugin9 Restricted? Message-ID: <4844644F.10109@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200806021609.58980.derek.graham@att.net> References: <200806021609.58980.derek.graham@att.net>
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Derek Graham schreef: > from freshports.org: >>> 2006-04-08 >>> Affects: users of www/linux-flashplugin* >>> Author: hrs@FreeBSD.org >>> Reason: >>> These ports have been removed because the End User License Agreement >>> explicitly forbids to run the Flash Player on FreeBSD. >>> For more details, see >>> http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/license/desktop/. > I found this odd, I remember seeing an email from adobe someone posted that > said that they do not support freebsd but they do not forbid users to use > flash if they can get it working. I personally think this is insane we need > a good alternative to flash9, more sites are using flash9 and flash7 is > becoming useless. Is there a alternative in ports that supports flash ver 9? I'm using swfdec-plugin at the moment, because the Linux flashplugin doesn't really work with native Firefox. I've also tried gnash (version 0.7.1), but that crashed too often, causing X to crash too. swfdec-plugin works reasonably here. HTH, Rene -- http://www.rene-ladan.nl/ GPG fingerprint = E738 5471 D185 7013 0EE0 4FC8 3C1D 6F83 12E1 84F6 (subkeys.pgp.net)
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