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Re: Flash is open?



On Fri, 14 May 2010 02:16:21 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:

> On 05/14/2010 01:52 AM, Camaleón wrote:

>> ***
>> http://www.openmedianow.org/?q=node/21
>>
>> "(...) One reason for the lack of excitement over the project in the
>> free software world is that it omits "huge amounts" of information
>> needed for a complete implementation of Flash. In particular, Savoye
>> points out that the announcement contains no mention of the Real Time
>> Messaging Protocol (RTMP) that is required for the Flash media server.
>> Nor does it mention
> 
> That was released in July 2009.
> 
>> the Sorenson Spark Codec that is used for video encoding in Flash 6 and
> 
> Adobe can't release it because they don't own it.

Then, there must be an error in Wikipedia "Adobe Flash¹" page. 

It says: "Licence: Proprietary EULA" >:-)

¹ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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