Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:36:25 -0700 From: Matt Olander <matt@iXsystems.com> To: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org, www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD + Adobe Flash News Item Message-ID: <46265719.6000609@iXsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <20070418172142.GA35241@gothic.blackend.org> References: <46264071.3040505@iXsystems.com> <20070418172142.GA35241@gothic.blackend.org>
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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 --
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