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	Jonathan McKeown <jonathan+freebsd-questions@hst.org.za>
Subject: Re: what happened to linuxflashplugin?
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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 ;)