Re: Linux-flashplugin7 & rtld - RFC

From: Eric Anderson <anderson_at_centtech.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:33:04 -0500
Tarc wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 03:57:50PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:
>> There's a reasonably well-known way to make Flash7 player work in FreeBSD, described here:
>>
>> http://www.jail.se/freebsd.html
>>
>> It involves patching the rtld with this patch:
>>
>> http://www.jail.se/freebsd/rtld_dlsym_hack.diff
>>
>> I'm not an expert, but this patch looks like free lunch - it doesn't look like it's going to 
>> break anything (though not much software depends on it :) ) - can it be committed to current and 
>> releng_6?
>>
> See UPDATING file:
> 20060408:
>   AFFECTS: users of www/linux-flashplugin*
>   AUTHOR: hrs_at_FreeBSD.org
> 
>   These ports have been removed because the End User License Agreement
>   explicitly forbids to run the Flash Player on FreeBSD.
>   For more details, see
>     http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/license/desktop/.
> 
> 


Shortly thereafter, someone went and got a confirmation from macromedia 
that is was ok to use it.


Eric


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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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