Gnash (software)
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Gnash is a media player for playing SWF files.[2] Gnash is available both as a standalone player for desktop computers and embedded devices, as well as a plugin for the browsers still supporting NPAPI.[3] It is part of the GNU Project and is a free and open-source alternative to Adobe Flash Player.[4] It was developed from the gameswf project.[5]
Developer(s) | Rob Savoye, Sandro Santilli, Bastiaan Jacques, Benjamin Wolsey, Zou Lunkai, Tomas Groth, Udo Giacomozzi, Hannes Mayr, John Gilmore, Markus Gothe. |
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Repository | |
Written in | C++, GTK+ / Qt ReAction |
Operating system | BSD, Linux, Microsoft Windows and AmigaOS |
Type | Media player |
License | 2007: GPL-3.0-or-later[lower-alpha 1] 2005: GPL-2.0-or-later[lower-alpha 2] |
Website | gnu |
Gnash was first announced in late 2005[6] by software developer John Gilmore. As of 2011[update], the project's maintainer is Rob Savoye. The main developer's web site for Gnash is located on the Free Software Foundation's GNU Savannah project support server.[7]
Gnash supports most SWF v7 features and some SWF v8 and v9, however SWF v10 is not supported.[7]