From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 2 23:54:14 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63718106564A for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2008 23:54:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek.graham@att.net) Received: from smtp104.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp104.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.229.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 04A468FC1C for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2008 23:54:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek.graham@att.net) Received: (qmail 53672 invoked from network); 2 Jun 2008 23:27:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mulder) (derek.graham@att.net@68.75.174.209 with plain) by smtp104.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 2 Jun 2008 23:27:33 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: IABro98VM1micao62.jJZSTphU.du38FbOUtefDnPFI28qU_JLfePKcYUZjVBIsef7_Mg5pwsbry3Ewxr9r0_oEDRkl1JlhTb.29uw7HYMDyBgo.WotSFduJOIpm4BOlYHp3RcsR3hE5oy2AE2Fm.vjjaQ-- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-5 From: Derek Graham Organization: D and M Computers, Inc. To: RW Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 18:27:07 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200806021609.58980.derek.graham@att.net> <20080603000811.3aae5319@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <20080603000811.3aae5319@gumby.homeunix.com.> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200806021827.08144.derek.graham@att.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: linux-flashplugin9 Restricted? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:54:14 -0000 on Monday 02 June 2008Monday 02 June 2008 RW RW wrote: > On Mon, 2 Jun 2008 16:09:58 -0500 > > Derek Graham wrote: > > from freshports.org: > > >> 2006-04-08 > > >> Affects: users of www/linux-flashplugin* > > >> Author: hrs@FreeBSD.org > > >> Reason: > > >> 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/. > > > > I found this odd, I remember seeing an email from adobe someone > > posted that said that they do not support freebsd but they do not > > forbid users to use flash if they can get it working. > > Note that this entry is dated 2006. The flash ports were temporarily > removed and then reinstated shortly after. This is not an issue, as far > as I know. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Then why do they still show up as Restricted in portfresh and ports? 7 is almost useless anyway since most sites use 9 now, and 9 is not even worth the time, flash almost is a waste of time installing :p Sincerely, Derek A. Graham