On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 01:42, Warren Togami wrote: > David Durst wrote: > > Hmmmmm, this is interesting. > > I didn't hear that they had started work on the x86 plugin till last week. > > Is the source available????? > > No, Macromedia is still a proprietary company with plenty of > intellectual property to protect. There are likely several patents > including Sorenson video codec within the source code, making it > impossible to open source. I've never heard that Sorenson or Quicktime were used in Flash... Flash 6 is an open, documented file format: http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/open/licensing/fileformat/faq.html Macromedia even suggests on the above page that you search sourceforge.net for "swf" for code that deals with the file format. > If you are a developer wishing to port Flash player to another platform > (like Linux PowerPC) it may be possible to license the Flash SDK under > NDA for this purpose. I'm trying to ask for this myself... Good luck :) -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
