[osflash] on using the word "Flash" in your projects...

[Aral Balkan]

Hi Geoff,

This is just so wrong. You've created an amazingly useful tool that not 
only provides a fix for the Eolas issue but also provides a superior 
method of embedding SWFs inside HTML pages. Adobe's thank-you should not 
be to have their legal department contact you to change its name.

If this is Adobe's new policy, I hope that there will be some guidelines 
posted to make their position public so we can all remove the word 
"Flash" from our various community sites and open source projects.

I guess FlashAnt would become SwfAnt and OSFlash, OSSWF?

Is SWF not a trademark too?

What a royal waste of time and resources.

Aral


Geoff Stearns wrote:
> Just a sort of word of warning...
>
> Adobe recently asked me to rename my FlashObject script to something 
> else because of trademark/legal issues. They are trying to protect 
> their 'Flash' trademark, and apparently macromedia was a bit more 
> relaxed about these things than Adobe is.
>
> So a word of warning to you all who use 'Flash' in the name of your 
> projects - you might want to think about changing it.
>
> more details here:
>
> http://blog.deconcept.com/2006/04/21/flashobject-to-become-swfobject/
> <snip>