Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:27:05 -0400 From: Naram Qashat <cyberbotx@cyberbotx.com> To: Derek Graham <derek.graham@att.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: linux-flashplugin9 Restricted? Message-ID: <484473B9.2040801@cyberbotx.com> In-Reply-To: <200806021609.58980.derek.graham@att.net> References: <200806021609.58980.derek.graham@att.net>
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Derek Graham wrote: > 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? It's not a perfect solution, but I've been using Wine to run the Windows version of Firefox along with the Windows version of the Flash 9 plugin. I unfortunately had no luck getting the Linux Flash 9 plugin to run with a native Firefox and nspluginwrapper, it would freeze nspluginwrapper. Naram Qashat > Thanks, > Derek > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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