Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:36:28 +0100 From: "Benjamin M. A'Lee" <bma+lists@subvert.org.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Writing Flash Driver Message-ID: <20071024133628.GA32954@gilmour.subvert.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <471F3EFC.5020105@charter.net> References: <200710231338.11681.mark@msen.com> <471ED019.9030901@charter.net> <471EF8C8.2080404@lvor.halvorsen.cc> <471F3EFC.5020105@charter.net>
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--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 <bma@subvert.org.uk> 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--
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