Writing Flash Driver

[icantthinkofone]

Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 07:47:56AM -0500, icantthinkofone wrote:
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>> Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:
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>>> icantthinkofone wrote:
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>>>> My naive question is, what is involved with creating an open source 
>>>> driver for flash for freebsd?  Is it a legal issue?  Or does it take more 
>>>> time than anyone has to give?  Or is it just too difficult to do without 
>>>> help from Adobe?
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>>> http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
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>>> It can even play youtube.
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>> Does that in any way answer the question?
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> Yes. Obviously it's not a legal issue, as it's been done. Likewise,
> it's not so difficult as to require help from Adobe, as it's been
> done without such help.
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> As I understand it, it's mostly a case of time and effort - working
> through as many different Flash files as possible, working out what
> they're doing, and implementing the support for it.
>
>   
To correct my previous post, I think.  It was Benjamin, here, who 
brought up working out the information involved in interfacing to Flash.