pakastin / open-source-flash
- суббота, 29 июля 2017 г. в 03:13:00
Petition to open source Flash spec
Adobe is going to stop distributing and updating Flash player. That's ok.
However Flash is an important piece of Internet history and killing Flash means future generations can't access the past. Games, experiments and websites would be forgotten.
Open sourcing Flash spec would be a good solution to keep Flash projects alive safely for archive reasons. Don't know how, but that's the beauty of open source: you never know what will come up after you go open source! There might be a way to convert swf/fla to HTML5/canvas/webgl/webassembly, or some might write a standalone player for it. Another possibility would be to have a separate browser. We're not saying Flash player should be preserved as is.
We understand that there are licenced components you can not release. Simply leave them out with a note explaining what was removed. We will either bypass them, or replace them with open source alternatives.
Star this repository to sign the petition. Pull requests are also welcome. Add cool Flash links here and reasons to open source Flash.
This petition will be delivered to Adobe.
Flash was a platform for creative expression in an exciting new medium with global reach at a time when sound and moving images were barely breaking into the internet. Many artists took the media and shaped it to their own style. These digital pieces were both mesmerizing and disturbing.
We do lots to save and restore old manuscripts so, why not consider any interactive artworks that were developed on this platform and can't be ported truthfully to just a video format.
Feel free to add other interactive art projects, websites, games and experiments that you think deserve to be saved:
There's already some projects to preserve Flash. The problem is that they're not complete, because of the closed source of Flash spec: