Adobe make Flash scripting Free Software with Mozilla Foundation

Alfred M. Szmidt ams at gnu.org
Tue Nov 7 13:03:53 UTC 2006


   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.

>From the looks (FAQ, headers in the source code), the code that was
released is tripple licensed (MPL, GPL, and LGPL), so konqueror can
use that code, same for Gnash.



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