freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 131, Issue 6

[Eric Schuele]

Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 02:04:55PM -0700, Alfred Morgan wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 08:47:07 -0500
>> From: Eric Schuele <e.schuele at computer.org>
>> Subject: Wanted: Flash player for <browser_of_choice>....
>> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
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>>> So... now that www/linux-flashplugin* are gone,  I was hoping to get 
>>> opinions on which alternative flashplayer(s) are reasonably good.
>> Why can't we do it like we did with java?  Where we had to download the 
>> linux version manually from a given URL saving it into our distfiles 
>> directory.  Then we would run the ports install procedure and all would be 
>> happy again.
> 
> Because the software license says you may not use it on FreeBSD, period.
> 

Any idea if anyone (the FreeBSD Foundation?) is going to attempt to 
change the situation?  Seems like flash support would be a useful 
feature for those using FreeBSD on the desktop.

> Kris


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Regards,
Eric