[osflash] Open Dialect an alternative Open Source Flash IDE

[Thijs Triemstra | Collab]

Hi Billy,

thanks for your response. I saw your question appear on the flex-sdk  
list as well but haven't seen an answer from Adobe so far. Quite  
frustrating they ignore, or don't react asap with such important  
questions, and also don't state it on their site in the first place.  
Nobody wants to break the rules but it's hard to know what's right and  
wrong with so little information or guidance. It will also be  
interesting to see what Adobe and the Free Software Foundation think  
about this, I wouldn't make decisions solely based on Mozilla's  
opinion. I also think you can expect a more sceptical answer from  
Adobe and FSF, if any.. There's a lot of great GPL-ed software out  
there and it would be great to mix it with the Flex ecosystem but for  
now there's too much doubt around the licenses, ruling out that  
combination, which forces us to look into alternatives for Flex, that  
are compatible with the GPL.

Cheers,

Thijs

On Mar 19, 2008, at 11:41 PM, Billy Schoenberg wrote:

> Hello thanks for your help, I spent the whole day getting advice  
> from the internet and finally Mozilla.  Mozilla says since I am  
> using un-modified binaries of the Flex SDK I just have to make sure  
> that I give a link to the MPL and to the Source of Flex which I now  
> do which will make sure that I don't violate the MPL.  Though there  
> would be HUGE issues if I started to modify the SDK, then I would  
> have to abandon the GPL.  Alas, legal issues are tough, I'd  
> personally rather write code :-).  Thanks though
>
> Billy
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