[IAEP] Options for having Flash work in Browse on SoaS and on Demo Sticks?

[Luke Faraone]

On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Caroline Meeks
<caroline at solutiongrove.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As I understand the law, if Solution Grove was creating USB sticks for a
> specific school we could load the adobe flash plugin onto every stick prior
> to giving them to the students. I think this is the same basic case as a
> company IT department distributing flash plugins to all the computers in the
> company.
>
> On the other hand, Sugar Labs can not install the flash plugin into the
> SoaS we offer for download on the sugarlabs.org website.
>
> My first question is about the grey area.
>
> If we are burning sticks and giving them out at a conference (such as
> FOSSVT) can we have the flash plugin pre-installed?
>

IANAL, and this is something that SG might want to see one about, but  per
http://www.adobe.com/products/players/fpsh_distribution1.html :

Licensee is permitted to distribute Adobe Web Players to multiple end-users
by including the Player installers on CDs, DVDs or other physical media.

Meaning you can include the installers, but cannot preinstall them.


> What are our different options for improving the user experience when a
> user browses to a YouTube video on Browse on a SoaS image?
>


   1. Do nothing and let the user fend for herself. This is the current
   option.
   2. Partner with them as David suggested.
   3. Bring up a window explaining the various alternatives and letting the
   user choose whether to install free/nonfree plugins. We also would need to
   give a management console so the user could reverse/undo their choices.
   4. Do the same as 2 but only offer Adobe's version. We can make this so
   that it's literally a "yes, please download and install it" and a "accept
   this EULA" (which ironically is not binding on our subjects) button.
   5. Finally, we could ship the sticks with a script which downloads or
   installs Adobe's plugin the first time it is connected to the internet
   without any user intervention.


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Luke Faraone
http://luke.faraone.cc
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