License-Free Spec
Mike Melanson: the previous restriction that anyone who looks at the spec technically isn’t allowed to create an independent SWF decoder (if documentation EULAs are to be believed) was a point of contention among many open source types.
I would agree that the ability to create a license-free, independent open source implementation is an important aspect of an open standard.
The open source flash implementations already had access to the information released via a reverse engineering effort. What is still missing is information (let alone a spec) on how actionscript and flash interact.
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This is the first good byproduct that I have seen from the Adobe-Macromedia merger.
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