Adobe drops most flash player licensing fees

[drhowarddrfine]

http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/20...drops-lic.html

Software maker Adobe announced Thursday that it would drop many of the licensing requirements attached to its Flash technology, which is used to display video and audio content on the web.

[vermaden]

Until they release full source code for flash 10 and older steps like that are totally useless.

[graudeejs]

tiny step for open source, huge step for Adobe..... (j/k)

[TerryP]

Not quite the moon landing (MS releasing the entire Windows XP source tree under a decent OSI-approved license); but close enough to seriousness smurf ;-)

It's not a native version of flash on the BSDs or source for the player, but hey... Beats trying to figure it out the hardway, and worry about getting sued along the way!

[graudeejs]

Originally Posted by TerryP

(MS releasing the entire Windows XP source tree under a decent OSI-approved license)

WOW, really?

[TerryP]

Hell no... I was just giving an example of something that would be on par with the moon landings importance.

[graudeejs]

lol, you got me

[mdh]

Yeah, I posted on another thread a find about them saying they were releasing the standards documents under "a BSD-like license." Kind of interesting. I think our bitching and whining may have gotten to them. Keep up the good work.