From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 2 21:46:29 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB3941065679 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2008 21:46:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from r.c.ladan@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.191]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35EE98FC1F for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2008 21:46:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from r.c.ladan@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id h3so517128nfh.33 for ; Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:46:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=bkNI+wCTWnm7wwqf8bnS5gQHi5DuinQwetPeZcqH5+M=; b=s4LytxXmUfSuxhBPBxtFweJHSeFnyNKvKRKe2+ADwgBLrRcd3791kCEvkU39Midl04IBEGEvE/gyA2NFvbOM51Nb00A26TOcW4MvoNq09a+oMYCWqOnz+Tvrwf1IqEU1crRsSwIWSmHxCpw8r156BiXDvbbF0qZPDwMSdKrnvkY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=EpqTApqMsztFxsY0fkwkoxD/vrjGrEw/o35BTb9RvUOqroD4QEKCGuXekfxX5pmUYse8Ax3UmEg1fMSVSsF5TOx7F7ER8In4Az6DHyMBp4TLkpZA1eBcuU5Y2OVA79gf0haLgiOTiVH5gkAhHdD9STadfoA2cVf9VJ+gPuLbDrs= Received: by 10.210.16.1 with SMTP id 1mr1444080ebp.98.1212441682154; Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:21:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from self.rene-ladan.nl ( [77.163.174.49]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k28sm7954717ugd.41.2008.06.02.14.21.20 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:21:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4844644F.10109@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:21:19 +0200 From: Rene Ladan User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080503) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Derek Graham References: <200806021609.58980.derek.graham@att.net> In-Reply-To: <200806021609.58980.derek.graham@att.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: linux-flashplugin9 Restricted? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:46:29 -0000 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)