[haiku-development] Re: Adobe Flash on Haiku

Ryan Leavengood wrote:

So I was thinking that there is probably about zero chance that Adobe
would port Flash to Haiku, at least in the foreseeable future. But
they have made a Linux version, even supporting the latest Flash 9. So
if we want to get Flash support on Haiku, there are at least two
options:
When Flash was a Macromedia product, they were quite good at licensing it to people (so people could add flash support to their embedded devices for example). A company called the General Coffee Company paid up the money for the SDK and produced the Flash 4 plugin for BeOS. Now obviously it was closed source and required an investment from the company to get the docs, but it still showed a willingness from Macromedia to support 3rd party ports. I've found the page on Adobe's site to show they still support this licensing model: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer_sdk/
If someone official-ish approached them and offered to do the port in return for some docs then they might be receptive. It might be that the port would have to remain closed source, but I have no major political objection to that if they feel it's necessary to preserve their intellectual property. We'd also need to find someone willing to do the port in that case - but it might still be worth approaching them hypothetically to see if we'd get any support there. 

Simon

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