On the Adobe Labs has been published a series of FAQ about the Flex Open Source plans.
I listed the more interesting questions from a Flex developers point of view :
How does this announcement benefit Flex developers?
Web and desktop developers using Flex will now be able to directly discuss ideas and proposals with project committers, submit code through the open bug tracking system, or contribute enhancements directly to the Flex project. Over time, Adobe also plans to introduce new subprojects that extend the core Flex Project.
How does this announcement benefit participants in open source projects?
Under the terms of the Mozilla Public License (MPL), open source project owners will be able to use Flex to develop parts of their applications, extend it and contribute to the community, or incorporate some or all of the SDK itself into their projects, provided they continue to comply with the license terms of the MPL.
Will the commercial version be different from the open source version?
Our goal is to make the initial open source distribution as close to the commercial distributions of the Flex SDK as possible. Due to restrictions on some components that have been licensed from third parties or come from other Adobe products, some portions of the current free Flex 2 SDK may be made available in binary form only.
Flex SDK Open Source Group : http://groups.google.com/group/flex-open-source
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