Rob Savoye
Rob Savoye
Rob Savoye is the primary developer of Gnash. He is a developer for the GNU Project, having worked on Debian, Red Hat and dozens of other free/open source software projects. He was among the first employees of Cygnus Support, which was sold to Red Hat in 2001...
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Gnash is GPL2'd, and the Free Software Foundation has the copyright. So the standalone player can be used by anyone, but the Flash player code can only be used by other free software projects under the terms of the GPL.
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Gnash has been developed only using freely available documentation and tools, so it can be a free implementation of a closed proprietary format.
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Most Flash movies on the Net are older Flash formats, which is why that's the current focus for the near term.