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Supposedly, the swf specification is already available to anyone who wants to implement it, without restriction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash#Open_

• dreyfiz 17y ago
  Wil Shipley (the Delicious Monster guy, formerly of the Omni Group) tweeted that they wrote their own Flash player for Rhapsody, and it wasn't hard: http://twitter.com/wilshipley/status/8404153085 http://twitter.com/wilshipley/status/8404153085
  • freetard 17y ago
    I doubt it was full featured, given how huge is the spec and how many technologies it embeds especially nowadays (video streaming, p2p etc).
    • hga 17y ago
      And doesn't the video streaming include payments to e.g. the H.264 rights holders? Freeing the whole thing still wouldn't give others the right to distribute it with those codecs.
• cookiecaper 17y ago
  Right, but that doesn't really help. See http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/134378 http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/134378 . Adobe's release of the spec followed by their removal of license restrictions from it was a PR move; if not, Gnash and swfdec would be a lot farther than they are. They are still incompatible with a large percentage of recent (like, last five years recent) Flash content. For Flash to really be open, Adobe has to open all of its associated technologies and they have to provide a decent reference implementation. The most obvious path to this is opening the Flash Player blob.