Re: [Gnash] Gnash mention by Adobe

[Bastiaan Jacques]

Alright, I'll take the bait.

The operative statement in that page seems to be that "Flash Player is
part of a rich ecosystem of both open and proprietary technologies."
Apparently it is sufficient to mention a partial implementation (that
does not even support AVM2).

We can't fully implement all Flash technologies without receiving a DMCA
threat from Adobe.[1] Nor can we even redistribute the codecs Flash
requires without coughing up money for the multimedia industry's henchmen.

So, to rephrase that phrase: "Flash Player is part of a restrictive
ecosystem of publicised yet proprietary technologies."

Bastiaan

[1] http://www.chillingeffects.org/anticircumvention/notice.cgi?NoticeID=25159

NB: Adobe has been aware of our existence for a long time.

On Sat, 15 May 2010, Tiago Jacobs wrote:

> Guys, take a look at the end of this page!
>
> http://www.adobe.com/choice/flash.html