Flash games

[Linas Zvirblis]

Miriam Ruiz wrote:

> Although gnash (GNU's Flash Player) is not really that functional yet, it
> might be in the future if they keep working at this speed.
> 
> This has made me think about the possibilities of packaging games in flash. I
> wonder whether there are free games available, and whether there would be a
> way to put them into debian. Even with a free player, as I'm not really sure
> they can be "compiled" with free tools (even if license might let do so),
> should they need to go to contrib? should we keep an eye on that?

I have seen at least one project aiming to create a fully functional 
flash development environment.* If there is none at the moment, there 
will likely be one in the near future. What I am yet to see, is a free 
flash game.

The freeware ones could go to non-free, but the origin of most of them 
is unknown. Moreover, each of them can be distributed under different 
terms, or these terms are unknown as well. All of this sounds like a 
legal hell and Debian should probably stay out of this, in my opinion.

* I forgot the name, so I cannot locate it at the moment. If I will, I 
will let you know.