GPL'd Flash Library

[Tim Schmidt]

Ok, re-posting this because the origional thread got all screwed up. 
I'd like to see the GPL'd flash library at
http://www.swift-tools.net/Flash/ included in Ubuntu (possibly Hoary).
 Since the origional posting a few good points have come up, so here's
the use cases:

First, I'd like to say something about the utility of a free, but only
partialy working flash plugin.  Even though it doesn't fully implement
all versions of Flash, there are many reasons that people can't use
Macromedia's flash, I'll try to outline those below.  Also, by
including the partially implemented flash library (for which there is
no better free solution) we'll be encouraging users to report bugs,
and increasing awareness of it with developers.  In short, if we
include the library with Hoary, it might be complete by the release
after Hoary.

1) Having a flash interpreter on the install CD would make life easier
for people with no (or slow -- dialup) internet connections

2) Macromedia's flash interpreter is useless on a LiveCD (since we
can't re-distribute it).

3) Supporting even just a couple versions of Flash is better than none.

4) Users of arch's other than x86 have a tough time even getting
Macromedia's flash working (Macromedia only makes Flash Player
available for x86 (32bit only), MacOSX, Solaris, and Windows)

5) It's not too hard to install Flash player from Firefox, but that's
a per-user install and so needs to be repeated, cannot be automated,
and wastes space.  Having one globally set up during the distribution
install would be better.

6) Supporting a free implementation of Flash fits well within Ubuntu
philosophy: http://www.ubuntulinux.org/ubuntu/philosophy/

Enough reasons?  Anyone have more?  Can we at least get a package in universe?

--tim