Editing SWF (section)

== Licensing ==
Until May 1, 2008, implementing software that plays SWF was disallowed by the specification's license.<ref>{{cite web
| url=https://www.adobe.com/licensing/developer/fileformat/license/
| title=SWF and FLV File Format Specification License Agreement
| publisher=Adobe Systems
| date=2007-06-27
| quote=You may not use the Specification in any way to create or develop a runtime, client, player, executable or other program that reads or renders SWF files.| access-date=2008-01-05 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071222125858/http://www.adobe.com/licensing/developer/fileformat/license/ <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 2007-12-22
}}</ref> On that date, as part of its Open Screen Project, Adobe dropped all such restrictions on the SWF and [[Flash Video|FLV]] formats.<ref>{{cite web
 |title       = Open Screen Project Press Release
 |url         = https://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200804/050108AdobeOSP.html
 |publisher   = Adobe Systems
 |date        = 2008-05-01
 |access-date  = 2008-05-01
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20080506095459/http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200804/050108AdobeOSP.html
 |archive-date = 2008-05-06
}}</ref>

Implementing software which creates SWF files has always been permitted, on the condition that the resulting files [[Rendering (computer graphics)|render]] "error free in the latest publicly available version of Adobe Flash Player."<ref>{{cite web|title=Adobe Player Licensing: Flash Player Developer SDKs |url=https://www.adobe.com/licensing/developer |publisher=Adobe Systems |access-date=2008-01-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080115032515/http://www.adobe.com/licensing/developer/ |archive-date=January 15, 2008 }}</ref>