From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 13 20:54:28 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A61E16A400 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 20:54:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sveinhal@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8616B43D46 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 20:54:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sveinhal@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s9so1285917wxc for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 13:54:26 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=VGpXVxbY6TiNMTLEh/Aw4It8g32YIMge7mR3WLa0kmVlxOBXre8KpmTgGdwW8SGJO96kZy6/01QoT2MrN4qk7ALMcU4IMSrODmO8wY68iXWTUnZv7yRbom4KRB92AYAAFMoiRQ7ki1QQ5d6AkUQlpMevGFbQNUKHN+Y8PsBxJ7A= Received: by 10.70.59.18 with SMTP id h18mr1239970wxa; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 13:54:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.117.5 with HTTP; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 13:54:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 22:54:26 +0200 From: "Svein Halvor Halvorsen" Sender: sveinhal@gmail.com To: gayn.winters@bristolsystems.com In-Reply-To: <001e01c65f2f$4976c560$6501a8c0@workdog> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <001e01c65f2f$4976c560$6501a8c0@workdog> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 21:43:40 +0000 Cc: Bob Johnson , Kris Kennaway , bobo1009@mailtest2.eng.ufl.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, portmgr@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wanted: Flash player for .... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 20:54:28 -0000 On 4/13/06, Gayn Winters wrote: > After reading the Adobe licensing FAQs > http://www.macromedia.com/licensing/distribution/faq/ > It seems to me that the proper route would be via a special license > request rather than a feature request. You are probably right. I filed the feature request, because I was advised by the customer support to do so. They thought that it would be beter to try to get a native FreeBSD version, than go the license change request route. But probably a special license is an even better solution. Anyway, I'd say it good to fellow all paths that might get us Flash on FreeBSD, that is both try to license Flash for FreeBSD, try to get them to make a native version, and develope an open source implementation. > This would probably get to > someone in their legal department who could decide if a change in the > EULA is easier that a special FreeBSD license (which would have to get > distributed with the port or package.) On the cited page there is a > link to a form for such special license requests. I don't know who the > right person within the FreeBSD community is to make such a request.... The FreeBSD Foundation, I would say. Svein Halvor