Hi, we have found by luck that the Flash player for GNU/Linux from Macromedia Software probably violates the libesd license (LGPL), being statically linked to it. If you play with readelf -s on the libflashplayer.so provided to see what symbols there are inside, you will find 48 symbols coming from libesd. This clearly shows that this file is statically linked with libesd - unless they have their own implementation of these 48 functions... ;) If I have well read the LGPL, statically link with libesd requires to provide the libesd source code, and an object file which can be used to rebuild the software against a newer version of the library. I can't see these two things in the binary tarball, and neither on the Macromedia website. Greetings, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :' : josselin mouette ens-lyon org `. `' joss debian org `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom
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