Wait wait wait - what happened here?

Wait wait wait - what happened here?

Posted Jan 12, 2006 10:18 UTC (Thu) by duck (guest, #4444)
In reply to: Wait wait wait - what happened here? by coriordan
Parent article: Flash players for Linux

I am sorry, I was a bit to fast and did not check the facts.

> I can confirm it: yes, Gnash is relicensed public domain code.
> I know this because FSF publicly say so. It's the very first sentence of
> the Gnash homepage on www.gnu.org.

The homepage indeed starts with saying that gnash is based on GamesSWF,
but I still would have appreciated something like "it is based on the
public domain software GamesSWF (link)". Maybe it is just me, but reading
something like "based on XYZ" on a GNU page, I assume that GamesSWF is
another, older FSF project.

> No, FSF are not claiming responsibility for other people's work

I apologize for suggesting otherwise, but a "Credits section" on the
homepage would have been appropriate and avoid confusion. I found the
information
in the HTML manual ("Authors").

> FSF have stated that they will put code that would be re-usable by the
> GameSWF project into the public domain.

This statement I could not find on the homepage, but I welcome this
statement. It would be nice to find it on the gnash homepage.

I am sorry for being sloppy while checking the facts and getting them
wrong.

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