Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:02:46 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Reid Linnemann <lreid@a.cs.okstate.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Jonathan McKeown <jonathan+freebsd-questions@hst.org.za> Subject: Re: what happened to linuxflashplugin? Message-ID: <20080211200141.G5406@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <47B0985A.2030804@cs.okstate.edu> References: <47AFC80B.8090303@gmail.com> <47B05C7A.80602@pacific.net.sg> <200802111540.34420.wundram@beenic.net> <200802112036.50352.jonathan%2Bfreebsd-questions@hst.org.za> <47B0985A.2030804@cs.okstate.edu>
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>> Jonathan > > The information I posted appears to be irrelevant now; from > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/96374 the license issue > appears to be resolved, but FreeBSD is still not permitted to > "distribute" linux-flashplugin, that right being reserved by > "authorized" operating systems and thus requiring the restricted flag. > But they don't prohibit individual user from grabbing flash for FreeBSD > on their own. this is excellent licence. this will make users smart enough to use ports subsystem - able to use it, while others (who installed FreeBSD because they heard it's better than linux vista or whatever) - will not ;)
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