Quote Originally Posted by DavesChillaxin View Post
...and that's why flash fails.
The main reasons are that (a.) Adobe doesn't want users complaining that Flash got installed "by stealth" onto a system, (b.) that they get credit for it, and most importantly (c.) that the mechanism to provide security patches and other updates gets put into place on users' machines.

The free license is to make sure that developers are aware of and conform to these requirements - or face litigation.