All sorted -- response from travist: "I was not aware that we were not supposed to package that player in with the tarballs. I will remove it with my next release (which will be shortly to fix the small little bug that someone found)." sime wrote:
(Att: ajk^)
Here is the email I sent to travist regarding non-GPL flashplayer in contrib http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/modules/flashvideo/
Simon
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [drupal.org] flashvideo, swftools and gpl Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 02:37:50 +0000 (UTC) From: info@urbits.com Reply-To: info@urbits.com To: info@urbits.com
travist,
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Hi Travis
Just looking at your flashvideo module. The ffmpeg stuff is really great, I've been working with ffmpeg for a while and I like that you're making it more accessible.
Regarding the flash player part of your module, I'd like to request that you make flashvideo run on top of the SWF Tools API module. http://drupal.org/project/swftools
This module provides a couple of advantages: 1. It easy to add support for many different Flash media/video/audio players 2. You can choose from various flash replacement techniques (swfobject, jquery.flash.js, UFO).
It also solves a problem for you. You have uploaded a Player.swf which I am quite certain is Jeroen Wijering's Flash player. http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Flash_Media_Player This flash player is Creative Commons license, hence it cannot be stored in Drupal contrib. SWF Tools ships with a special version of this flash player that was kindly GPL'd by Jeroen. This version has a watermark and link to Jeroen's site, which is only fair - if people want to download the CC version of the player from his site, they can do this.
I discussed this problem in IRC, and for this reason I'm cc'ing the developers mailing list so that a few people can follow the GPL issue to its resolution.
But I really hope you like the idea of using SWF Tools API - you don't need to move your project or anything, just change some of the code. I think it's the best thing for Drupal as whole, since the community builds up it's Flash-related expertise in one spot.
Cheers Simon