linux-flashplugin9 Restricted?

[Naram Qashat]

Derek Graham wrote:
> from freshports.org:
>>> 2006-04-08
>>> Affects: users of www/linux-flashplugin*
>>> Author: hrs at FreeBSD.org
>>> Reason: 
>>> These ports have been removed because the End User License Agreement
>>> explicitly forbids to run the Flash Player on FreeBSD.
>>> For more details, see
>>> http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/license/desktop/.
> I found this odd, I remember seeing an email from adobe someone posted that 
> said that they do not support freebsd but they do not forbid users to use 
> flash if they can get it working.  I personally think this is insane we need 
> a good alternative to flash9, more sites are using flash9 and flash7 is 
> becoming useless. Is there a alternative in ports that supports flash ver 9?

It's not a perfect solution, but I've been using Wine to run the Windows version 
of Firefox along with the Windows version of the Flash 9 plugin.  I 
unfortunately had no luck getting the Linux Flash 9 plugin to run with a native 
Firefox and nspluginwrapper, it would freeze nspluginwrapper.

Naram Qashat

> Thanks,
> Derek
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