Adobe make Flash scripting Free Software with Mozilla Foundation

Shane M. Coughlan shane at shaneland.co.uk
Tue Nov 7 12:58:23 UTC 2006


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MJ Ray wrote:
> Alex Hudson <home <at> alexhudson.com> writes:
>> The scripting engine of Flash (which, from what I've been told, is very
>> much like Javascript anyway) has been donated to Mozilla, and will be
>> part of their future JS implementation (I gather).
> 
> In http://fortytwo.ch/blog/archives/2006/11/#e2006-11-07T08_56_44.txt Adrian von
> Bidder writes:
>> Now the only part that bothers me is that this likely means the Mozilla 
>> license will be used, which is AFAIK GPL-incompatible, which means that
>> Konqueror will not get native flash in the foreseeable future now.
>> Especially because I think that this move will cause work on the free
>> flash player front (Gnash, and I believe there were others) to slow down.
> 
> Are Adobe and Mozilla helping or hurting other free software players?

Uh, guys...please check the sources.  The engine is being released under
tri-license (MPL, GPL, LGPL), just like the rest of the Mozilla code.

Regards

Shane
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