Mozillas shumway probably solution for the flash problem?
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I read about Mozilla's shumway.
It claims to become an "open source" solution for rendering .swf files without the need of a proprietary plugin.
Sounds very well, but we don't benefit of getting rid of proprietary plugins if we have to use proprietary javascript instead.
And I'm afraid this might be the case.
I just opened this code file and read the licence at the beginning:
http://mozilla.github.io/shumway/lib/DataView.js/DataView.js
Doesn't sound like "this program is free software" or anything.
Does anyone have more information?
What do you think about it?
Oh I just saw it is effectively a free software licence, though not properly labeled:
* Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification,
* are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
*
* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
* this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
That's the FreeBSD License. It's considered a perfectly good free software license by the FSF.
I'm surprised they didn't use the MPL 2.0 since that's their own license. Still, they probably have their reasons for using the 2-Clause "Simplified BSD" license.
Thanks for the clarification.
Other parts of the code are licensed under the apache license; that seems to be ok, too.
So I think this is really a project worth keeping an eye on it.
HUm.... it surely looks promising, but as I said in another thread, we should try to get rid of patented/proprietary/obfuscated stuff on the web. Instead of trying to promote the use of Adobe Flash files just because we can now load them, we should promote the move to html5/webm/whatever other free files and systems there might be.
My opinion, feel free to disagree =)
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