Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:37:40 -0500 From: icantthinkofone <icantthinkofone@charter.net> To: "Benjamin M. A'Lee" <bma+lists@subvert.org.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Writing Flash Driver Message-ID: <471F74D4.8080703@charter.net> In-Reply-To: <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> <20071024133628.GA32954@gilmour.subvert.org.uk>
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Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 07:47:56AM -0500, icantthinkofone wrote: > >> Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: >> >>> icantthinkofone wrote: >>> >>> >>>> My naive question is, what is involved with creating an open source >>>> driver for flash for freebsd? Is it a legal issue? Or does it take more >>>> time than anyone has to give? Or is it just too difficult to do without >>>> help from Adobe? >>>> >>>> >>> http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/ >>> >>> It can even play youtube. >>> >>> >> 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. > > To correct my previous post, I think. It was Benjamin, here, who brought up working out the information involved in interfacing to Flash.
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