19 Oct
2006
19 Oct
'06
8:45 p.m.
On Thursday 19 October 2006 17:59, Leonard "paniq" Ritter wrote:
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.
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.
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.)
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
Rob