[linux-audio-user] flash 9 beta

[Cesare Marilungo]

Rob wrote:

>On Thursday 19 October 2006 17:59, Leonard "paniq" Ritter wrote:
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>>if i remember correctly macromedia's flash licence doesn't
>>cover making player derivatives. you can create content
>>creation tools, but not players. i'm not sure tho. i just
>>heard that.
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>No, you're right, the official Flash specification is only 
>available to developers who agree not to make competing players.  
>Luckily for us, though, Gnash is a clean-room implementation as 
>far as I can tell.
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>Gnash isn't the first attempt at a free flash player, just the 
>one that's gotten the furthest along (though I can't verify that 
>right now because it requires OpenGL and my tablet running 
>Ubuntu from Emperorlinux currently can't do GLX and the pen 
>stuff simultaneously.)
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>http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
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>Rob
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Regarding flash content creation on linux there's also this:

http://ming.sourceforge.net/

I've used it (in python) some months ago to make some flash GUIs for a 
client. If you're a programmer it's far easier to make stuff with this 
than using the Flash application itself.

c.

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