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26
2007
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Adobe open sources Flex

Adobe announced today that it will be releasing the Flex 2 SDK under the Mozilla Public License. That’s open source.

This will include the ActionScript and MXML compilers, but interestingly enough won’t include the purpose-built Eclipse-based IDE extension. (Eclipse is a full open source IDE for any language). This means that you won’t get auto-complete or the graphical designer – for now that is (now that it is open source expect to see these things crop up soon).

Everything else to do with Flex, including Flash and ColdFusion, will still be under commercial license.

A good step in the right direction none-the-less.

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Adobe to Open Source Flex « Adam On Life
April 27th, 2007 2:13 am

[...] 26 Apr, 2007  Flex Adobe As mentioned on Daniel’s View, Adobe is set to immediately open source much of the Flex sdk under the Mozilla Public License. Read more about it in Adobe’s press release. With Adobe’s initiative to help Mozilla by open sourcing Tamarin, the Javascript compiler, and now Flex out in the free world what will come next? [...]

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