Re: [Gnash-dev] swfdec / gnash hacking competition

[strk]

Benjamin is with us every day on #gnash since a week or so,
and we're working togheter to find out what the correct
behaviour is for a flash player. Also, we're basically sharing
the test cases. All in all is a useful "coopetition".

--strk;

On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 11:44:14PM -0800, John Gilmore wrote:
> Benjamin Otte, the guy who picked up swfdec and has been hacking it
> since September, says he's got youtube working with it now:
> 
>   http://www.advogato.org/person/company/diary.html?start=34
> 
> Here's why he didn't choose to hack on gnash instead: "Gnash is low
> quality, written in C++ with Boost, requires Copyright assignment, svn
> doesn't even compile and it does less than my current Swfdec, so I
> didn't hack on it."  Hmm, swfdec is LGPL, but he doesn't want to
> assign his copyright to FSF?  Not sure what his concern is.
> 
>       John
> 
> PS:  Of course, if everyone was working on the same code, it would
> evolve faster; but having some competition is a good thing too.