Licence for rendering Flash movies

Hello,
I'm an indie game developer and for one of my projects I
would like to use a third party open source SWF rendering library,
GameSWF. Is there any restrictions from Adobe/Macromedia point of
view in this matter?
The author of GameSWF claims the following:
quote:
I've been careful to try to avoid any possible legal problems
with Macromedia, by not using their specs and not taking patches
from anyone using their specs. I.e. as I understand it, gameswf
clearly qualifies as a legal clean-room reimplementation of a SWF
player. But I have not sought any professional legal opinions on
this, and of course for free code I can't offer any warranty or
indemnification about it.
Please, comment on this. I would like to hear a comment of
an official representative of Adobe/Macromedia, please.
Thank you!

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