Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:39:21 +0400 From: sekes <gexlie@gmail.com> To: Tarc <tarc@tarc.po.cs.msu.su> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux-flashplugin7 & rtld - RFC Message-ID: <53cc795f0606140739w45fffc81i59e449a6a11cbe54@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060614142715.GN22799@tarc.po.cs.msu.su> References: <449015DE.6090407@fer.hr> <20060614142715.GN22799@tarc.po.cs.msu.su>
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http://www.freshports.org/commit.php?message_id=200604262148.k3QLma6Z060051@repoman.freebsd.org 26 Apr 2006 Bring back www/linux-flashplugin7 [Maintainer update] www/linux-flashplugin7 - to be restored from attic port www/linux-flashplugin7 was deleted to the attic, due to a licensing issue that has now been resolved. Therefore the port can be restored. | From: Service <service@macromedia.com> | Date: Apr 24, 2006 5:55 PM | Subject: Macromedia Customer Service Request [8542731] | To: Chad Gross <avatar4d@gmail.com> | | | Hi Chad, | | Thank you for contacting Customer Service at Macromedia, now part of | Adobe Systems. | | I understand your feedback on the compatibility of Flash Player on BSD. | | Please note that Flash Player is not supported in FreeBSD, thus it not | mentioned on the End User License Agreement that Flash Player can be | downloaded and installed on the operating system. It is not that the | web player is prohibited in FreeBSD, but the operating system itself | is not compatible with Player. | | Please note that it is your option whether to install Flash Player on | your FreeBSD; however, please note that we cannot provide you with any | technical support, warranties or remedies for the software, although | it is clearly stated on the End User License Agreement, the only | authorized operating systems where you may download and install Flash | Player. | | To view the System Requirements of Flash Player, you may go to: | | http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashplayer/productinfo/systemreqs/ | | In connection with this, if you would like to make suggestions or | comments on how we can improve future versions of our software, or to | report possible "bugs" in our current versions, please visit: | | http://www.macromedia.com/support/email/wishform/ | | Your comments, suggestions, and ideas for improvements are very | important to us. We appreciate you taking the time to send us this | information. | | I hope this helps. | | Should you have further concerns, feel free to write us back. | | Regards, | | Astrid C. Villanueva | Customer Service | Macromedia, now part of Adobe Systems PR: ports/96374 <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/96374>; Submitted by: Jamie Jones <jamie@bishopston.net> distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist CVS: On 6/14/06, Tarc <tarc@tarc.po.cs.msu.su> wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 03:57:50PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: > > There's a reasonably well-known way to make Flash7 player work in > FreeBSD, described here: > > > > http://www.jail.se/freebsd.html > > > > It involves patching the rtld with this patch: > > > > http://www.jail.se/freebsd/rtld_dlsym_hack.diff > > > > I'm not an expert, but this patch looks like free lunch - it doesn't > look like it's going to > > break anything (though not much software depends on it :) ) - can it be > committed to current and > > releng_6? > > > See UPDATING file: > 20060408: > AFFECTS: users of www/linux-flashplugin* > AUTHOR: hrs@FreeBSD.org > > These ports have been removed because the End User License Agreement > explicitly forbids to run the Flash Player on FreeBSD. > For more details, see > http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/license/desktop/. > > > -- > Best regards, > Arseny Nasokin > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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