On 11/17/2014 11:49 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
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
Slightly OT - Mozilla is building their own flash player using JS it is called shumway.
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