From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 31 21:24:49 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C6B316A6CD for ; Wed, 31 May 2006 21:24:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com (mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E984943D45 for ; Wed, 31 May 2006 21:24:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from vanquish.pgh.priv.collaborativefusion.com (vanquish.pgh.priv.collaborativefusion.com [192.168.2.61]) (AUTH: LOGIN wmoran, TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by wingspan with esmtp; Wed, 31 May 2006 17:24:47 -0400 id 00056410.447E099F.0000F105 Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 17:24:47 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20060531172447.c61c305a.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <200605311335.54004.don.hinton@vanderbilt.edu> References: <200605311335.54004.don.hinton@vanderbilt.edu> Organization: Collaborative Fusion X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i386-portbld-freebsd6.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Using Flash on FreeBSD [Fwd: Macromedia Customer Service Request [8564611]] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 21:24:51 -0000 On Wed, 31 May 2006 13:35:53 -0500 Don Hinton wrote: > Hi: > > When trying to upgrade Flash, I ran into the following in the 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/. > > So I contacted Adobe, see below, and according to the customer service rep, > Astrid C. Villanueva, there is not problem with using Flash on FreeBSD, it's > just not supported. > > Therefore, would it be possible to add it back to the ports? Update your ports tree. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.