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Date:      Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:23:56 -0600
From:      Reid Linnemann <lreid@cs.okstate.edu>
To:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: what happened to linuxflashplugin?
Message-ID:  <47B0A0CC.9050402@cs.okstate.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20080211200141.G5406@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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> <20080211200141.G5406@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>

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Written by Wojciech Puchar on 02/11/08 13:02>>
>>> 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 ;)

heh - a darwinian user filter, yes?



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