From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 24 14:01:01 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B40C16A475 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:01:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bma@gilmour.subvert.org.uk) Received: from jagger.subvert.org.uk (jagger.subvert.org.uk [80.68.88.238]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F54113C4A8 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:01:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bma@gilmour.subvert.org.uk) Received: from localhost (jagger.subvert.org.uk [127.0.0.1]) by jagger.subvert.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E7083808C for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:36:41 +0100 (BST) Received: from jagger.subvert.org.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (jagger.subvert.org.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id O8OAAij9Xze7 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:36:30 +0100 (BST) Received: from gilmour.subvert.org.uk (user-514d9173.l3.c2.dsl.pol.co.uk [81.77.145.115]) (Authenticated sender: bma) by jagger.subvert.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 754AD3800D for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:36:30 +0100 (BST) Received: by gilmour.subvert.org.uk (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 23078B85A; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:36:28 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:36:28 +0100 From: "Benjamin M. A'Lee" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20071024133628.GA32954@gilmour.subvert.org.uk> References: <200710231338.11681.mark@msen.com> <471ED019.9030901@charter.net> <471EF8C8.2080404@lvor.halvorsen.cc> <471F3EFC.5020105@charter.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <471F3EFC.5020105@charter.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Subject: Re: Writing Flash Driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:01:01 -0000 --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 07:47:56AM -0500, icantthinkofone wrote: > Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: >> icantthinkofone wrote: >> =20 >>> My naive question is, what is involved with creating an open source=20 >>> driver for flash for freebsd? Is it a legal issue? Or does it take mo= re=20 >>> time than anyone has to give? Or is it just too difficult to do withou= t=20 >>> help from Adobe? >>> =20 >>=20 >> http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/ >>=20 >> It can even play youtube. >> =20 > Does that in any way answer the question? Yes. Obviously it's not a legal issue, as it's been done. Likewise, it's not so difficult as to require help from Adobe, as it's been done without such help. As I understand it, it's mostly a case of time and effort - working through as many different Flash files as possible, working out what they're doing, and implementing the support for it. --=20 Benjamin A'Lee http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/ "I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers." - Mahatma Gandhi --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHH0paEUZDNrttL6ARAp/yAKCKXxuuWjw3b8AMYnF6dQRuzV/57wCfS707 NYYqpBpDyH1kcmbeLMW3UcY= =aH7r -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l--