On 11/17/2014 10:05 AM, Darr247 wrote: > On 17 November 2014 @15:19 zulu, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> I (we, the CentOS Project) can not distribute flash > > Is it because Adobe said no, or that you never actually asked? > Because I was OK'd to distribute FlashPlayer (both the ActiveX and > 'other browser' Plugin versions) just by filling out a simple online > application. > https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=distribution_form&pv=fp > > Or is it because the CentOS Project *won't* distribute it because Adobe > doesn't release the source code? Well, Red Hat had to take it out of their build. And in this case the issue is a combination problem with Adobe and Google. Google has permission to build and distribute flash as pepperflash in Chrome. Red Hat asked and was told no for that combination in chromium. Adobe's actual flash player no longer works on chromium .. only pepperflash, built by Google. And Google does not allow chromium builders to distribute that (well they (Google) are only allowed to distribute it by Adobe). So, the thing I would need to get permission to distribute is the pepperflash.so which is built by Google, which I can not distribute. So, this is much less a problem of no source code ... it is that I can't build it, Adobe's no longer works, and no one but Google can distribute pepperflash.so legally in the US. Thanks, Johnny Hughes
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