From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 18 17:36:30 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: advocacy@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4609E16A404; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:36:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matt@ixsystems.com) Received: from mail.iXsystems.com (newknight.ixsystems.net [206.40.55.70]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2530213C484; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:36:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matt@ixsystems.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.iXsystems.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08F27BE65; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:36:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.iXsystems.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.ixsystems.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 95943-05; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:36:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.174] (drawbridge.ixsystems.net [206.40.55.65]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.iXsystems.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C303BE5F; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:36:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <46265719.6000609@iXsystems.com> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:36:25 -0700 From: Matt Olander User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Macintosh/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marc Fonvieille References: <46264071.3040505@iXsystems.com> <20070418172142.GA35241@gothic.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <20070418172142.GA35241@gothic.blackend.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org, www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD + Adobe Flash News Item X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:36:30 -0000 Marc Fonvieille wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 08:59:45AM -0700, Matt Olander wrote: >> While Adobe hasn't agreed to port Flash to FreeBSD (yet!), they have >> agreed to re-distribution of the Flash player. I obtained 2 separate >> re-distribution agreements, one for PC-BSD and one for the FreeBSD >> Foundation. >> >> The lead Flash Product Manager at Adobe, Emmy Huang, who is also a >> strong open source advocate, was a great help to me getting this far and >> she will be blogging about this shortly. >> >> In the meantime, here's the very simple press release for PC-BSD/Flash: >> http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/04/prweb519843.htm >> > > Which Flash player version is concerned? 7.X I assume? 7 and 9, and I believe there's a clause for future versions until we're notified otherwise but it's been so long since I reviewed the agreement, I'll have to go back over it. Adobe has an entire process in place to get agreements signed, and it's not exactly fast. -matt -- Matt Olander CTO, iXsystems - "Servers for Open Source" http://www.iXsystems.com Public Relations, The FreeBSD Project http://www.FreeBSD.org BSD on the Desktop! http://www.pcbsd.org Phone: (408)943-4100 ext. 113 Fax: (408)943-4101 --