Re: [Gnash-dev] gnash library question

[Rob Savoye]

John Mattei wrote:

>        My question is, if I build gnash on a Mac OSX platform
>        do you think I will be able to incorporate the gnash
>        libraries into my Xcode build and use the funcitons
>        to control the Flash movies.  The application is written
>        in Objective-C.

  Not unless your application is GPLv3. Gnash is a GNU project, and 
while you could physically do this, it would be a GPL violation. You 
could potentially use the standalone Gnash player, and just have it 
render in the window of your application, but that currently only works 
with GTK or KDE, not Aqua.

  What most folks have done in the past is to write a standalone flash 
movie player that the rest of their proprietary application sends XML 
messages to when it wants to control something.

>        Oh, if you would maybe have a C library for flash control,
>        my company is willing to pay for it.

  We will gladly accept donations of funding or equipment. :-) If you 
have a serious interest, you can contact me.

  btw, I've run Gnash on both PPC based Macs, and the newer dual core ones.

        - rob -