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From: Andy Reitz <reitz@eecs.cwru.edu>
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Cc: Ross Lonstein <ross-freebsd@lonsteins.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Wanted: Flash player for <browser_of_choice>....
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On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Ashley Moran wrote:

> On Wednesday 12 April 2006 15:15, you wrote:
> > I forwarded this license issue to an engineer I know there. His
> > response was positive. We'll have to see how it goes with their
> > management and legal.
>
> Cool
>
> From reading the license I got the impression they only really want to block
> users from installing Flash on embedded devices (why I do not know...) - the
> lawyers probably don't even realise FreeBSD exists.  I doubt it was intented
> as a positive exclusion of the OS.

My guess is because they have a specific version of flash for embedded
devices, and they want to ensure that the PC flash doesn't end up on a
mobile device. Here is the URL for the embedded flash, "Flash Lite":

	http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/devices/

-Andy.