Hello, On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 12:35:33PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > This is to clear out the current status of flashplayer/plugin. > - flashplugin still has a GPL violation problem and won't > be packaged into Debian untill it's fixed. > - upstream has stopped developement of flashutils for > quite long time now. so flashplayer, which is > in Debian, is now dead upstream. > given that situation, i packaged tubesock (see > http://tubesock.sf.net), also an inmature project like > flashutils but maintained by a group of developers, with > CVS, mailing list, etc. > tubesock does not include a plugin yet, but they're > working on that and it might in some time. > I will keep waiting for flashutils upstream's response, > but i realy suggest looking at tubesock for flash > playing or any feedback you have in mind. Just as a data point, I was never able to get flashplugin working on any platform other than i386 (tried alpha and powerpc), so I'm not sure how much of a win it would be if flashplugin did make it into the archive. Tubesock at least seems to work well on alpha, aside from some performance issues (due in part to excessive debugging output, it seems). I'm not sure what you mean by a GPL violation (I thought the problem with flashplugin was a dependency on a header we have no right to redistribute), but it appears that tubesock is also GPL. If there really is a GPL violation involved in packaging flashplugin, wouldn't tubesock have the same problem? BTW, I think browser integration is a key requirement for any flash player -- at least, all flash content I'm interested in is on the web. If no plugin is available today, is there any possibility of providing hooks for integration with plugger, for example? Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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