There is nothing bad about the flash format. If it works in a free player
I'm not aware of any other objections.
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Amir Elisha Aharoni <amir.aharoni(a)gmail.com
wrote:
> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 19:39, Aryeh Gregor
> <Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com <Simetrical%2Bwikilist(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> >> This looks like MW can use
flash 10 and its swf format. I asked Adobe
> >> about this question. I let you know what there answere is.
>
> I am not a lawyer and I am not speaking on behalf of MediaWiki
> developers or the WMF, but there's a simple practical problem: the
> format may be open, but if you cannot actually use this WYSIWYG editor
> with nothing but Free Software, then it cannot be on a WMF project.
> Flash 10 is not Free Software. If this editor will work with an
> appropriately Free Flash player, such as Gnash or swfdec, then it can
> be considered to be included in a WMF project. Is this right?
>
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