Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 18 07:58:03 UTC 2010


On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 01:16:42PM -0800, John Reiser wrote:
>> On 11/17/2010 12:41 PM, Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
>> > 2) Issues found in proprietary software cannot be fixed by anybody except
>> >    the vendor
>> False.  In this particular case, it is possible to binary edit the plugin
>> libflashplayer.so so that all its calls to memcpy become calls to memmove.
>
> Cannot legally.

Sure can.

>  4.5 No Modification or Reverse Engineering. You shall not modify, adapt,
>  translate or create derivative works based upon the Software. You shall not
>  reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to discover
>  the source code of the Software. [...]

As long as you don't redistribute it you can do whatever you want with it.


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