ports/96374: [Maintainer update] www/linux-flashplugin7 - to be restored from attic

Jamie Jones jamie at bishopston.net
Fri Jun 30 00:20:38 UTC 2006


The following reply was made to PR ports/96374; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jamie Jones <jamie at bishopston.net>
To: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/96374: [Maintainer update] www/linux-flashplugin7 - to be restored from attic
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 00:59:59 +0100 (BST)

 Emmy Huang, the project manager for Flash Player at adobe has issued the
 following update on the license issue. No longer do we require the "special
 permission" to run flash-player on FreeBSD, as the EULA has been altered
 to remove the 'authorized OS" requirement:
 
 "FreeBSD users, this one's for you: We have updated the EULA for this
  release. The first key change is that it is a combined "player" EULA,
  so it also refers to terms related to Adobe Reader. Second change -
  and one that I hope will be welcomed by many of you - is that we did
  away with the concept of "authorized OS" ...but this means you should
  review the Restrictions listed in Section 3a. These changes mean that
  IF you as an end-user want to install on a platform that we don't
  officially support in the system requirements AND you can get it to
  work AND you understand that we won't provide technical support for
  your efforts -- you can freely install the player without being in
  violation of the EULA. This does not impact the free distribution
  license, which still lists "authorized OS".
 
 For more inforation, see:
   http://weblogs.macromedia.com/emmy/archives/2006/06/a_pocket_guide.cfm
 
 
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