From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/7.0 (compatible) Description of problem: Mozilla used to rely on a sneaky link to /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/ligflashpayer.so to get Macromedia Flash Player capability. Now, when Netscape is dropped, it's time for Red hat to step-up and start distributing Flash Player for Linux from Macromedia yourselves. After all Macromedia only asks for displaying their logo. This is not a big deal in mozilla, is it? ... unless of course Red Hat is committed to open source software only. No, you are not :), productivity CD is perfectly sutable to include mozilla-flash-5.0.r50-1.i386.rpm with that damn logo. To make your inquieries easier, I give you a couple of links: tar.gz is at http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/flash/english/linux/5.0r50/flash_li nux.tar.gz Distribution license for logo is at: http://www.macromedia.com/support/shockwave/info/licensing/ Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Netscape is dropped 2. Mozilla is not able to use flash player plugin 3. Additional info:
The flash player is closed source; we're definitely moving towards all open source in the base distribution.
Won't fix.