Posted by Toby Inkster on 06/29/05 10:06

Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> SWF is not an open format.

It kinda sorta is. To develop tools that use the SWF format you have to
agree to a licence from Macromedia, but that said it's not such a nasty
licence -- it indeminifies them from any damages (same as most Open Source
licences do), ensures a bit of quality control (your Flash export function
must not break in the latest version of the Flash Player for Windows, Mac
and Linux at the time of release) and protects their trademark over the
name "Macromedia Flash".

http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/open/licensing/fileformat/

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