what happened to linuxflashplugin?

Wojciech Puchar wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
Mon Feb 11 19:06:23 UTC 2008


>> Jonathan
>
> The information I posted appears to be irrelevant now; from
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/96374 the license issue
> appears to be resolved, but FreeBSD is still not permitted to
> "distribute" linux-flashplugin, that right being reserved by
> "authorized" operating systems and thus requiring the restricted flag.
> But they don't prohibit individual user from grabbing flash for FreeBSD
> on their own.

this is excellent licence. this will make users smart enough to use ports
subsystem - able to use it, while others (who installed FreeBSD because they heard 
it's better than linux vista or whatever) - will not ;)


More information about the freebsd-questions mailing list