port www/linux-flashplugin7 was deleted to the attic, due to a licensing issue that has now been resolved. Therefore the port can be restored. Fix: Please could port www/linux-flashplugin7 be brought back from the 'attic', where it was deleted due to a licensing issue.. This has now been resolved, thanks to Chad Gross. The port details are unchanged from the attic'ed copy, however could you add something like this to the pkg-descr to ensure we keep track of the permission we've been granted: FreeBSD Flash License Agreement: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/ID-OF-THIS-PR (Kris has agreed that this email is suitable authorisation for this to happen) Cheers, Jamie (maintainer, www/linux-flashplugin7) | From: Service <service@macromedia.com> | Date: Apr 24, 2006 5:55 PM | Subject: Macromedia Customer Service Request [8542731] | To: Chad Gross <avatar4d@gmail.com> | | | Hi Chad, | | Thank you for contacting Customer Service at Macromedia, now part of | Adobe Systems. | | I understand your feedback on the compatibility of Flash Player on BSD. | | Please note that Flash Player is not supported in FreeBSD, thus it not | mentioned on the End User License Agreement that Flash Player can be | downloaded and installed on the operating system. It is not that the | web player is prohibited in FreeBSD, but the operating system itself | is not compatible with Player. | | Please note that it is your option whether to install Flash Player on | your FreeBSD; however, please note that we cannot provide you with any | technical support, warranties or remedies for the software, although | it is clearly stated on the End User License Agreement, the only | authorized operating systems where you may download and install Flash | Player. | | To view the System Requirements of Flash Player, you may go to: | | http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashplayer/productinfo/systemreqs/ | | In connection with this, if you would like to make suggestions or | comments on how we can improve future versions of our software, or to | report possible "bugs" in our current versions, please visit: | | http://www.macromedia.com/support/email/wishform/ | | Your comments, suggestions, and ideas for improvements are very | important to us. We appreciate you taking the time to send us this | information. | | I hope this helps. | | Should you have further concerns, feel free to write us back. | | Regards, | | Astrid C. Villanueva | Customer Service | Macromedia, now part of Adobe Systems | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | Please use your incident number 8542731 in any correspondence with us. | | Customer Service at Macromedia, now part of Adobe Systems | | http://www.macromedia.com/support/service/ | | Note concerning Attachments: Please do not send attachments in a reply to this email. | Instead, can you please contact the support agent to make arrangements to send your files. | Thank you.
State Changed From-To: open->closed Committed, thanks!
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 -- -=-=-=- Virus Scanned by "pacha.mail.bishopston.net" using ClamAv -=-=-=- Database Last Checked: Fri Jun 30 00:38:00 BST 2006 - http://www.clamav.net/ Database Updated : Thu Jun 29 22:38:02 BST 2006 - 60728 viruses scanned