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

[Markus Gothe]

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Interesting point of his that boost is an issue. Actually back in
september we hadn't introduced/used boost at all. Seems like
doublethought from him to justify his choice.

//Markus

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.
>
>
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