Linux-flashplugin7 & rtld - RFC
Eric Anderson
anderson at centtech.com
Wed Jun 14 14:32:54 UTC 2006
Tarc wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 03:57:50PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:
>> There's a reasonably well-known way to make Flash7 player work in FreeBSD, described here:
>>
>> http://www.jail.se/freebsd.html
>>
>> It involves patching the rtld with this patch:
>>
>> http://www.jail.se/freebsd/rtld_dlsym_hack.diff
>>
>> I'm not an expert, but this patch looks like free lunch - it doesn't look like it's going to
>> break anything (though not much software depends on it :) ) - can it be committed to current and
>> releng_6?
>>
> See UPDATING file:
> 20060408:
> AFFECTS: users of www/linux-flashplugin*
> AUTHOR: hrs at FreeBSD.org
>
> 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/.
>
>
Shortly thereafter, someone went and got a confirmation from macromedia
that is was ok to use it.
Eric
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