On Wednesday 01 April 2009 11:27:30 am you wrote:
> Jeffrey D Anderson wrote:
> > Adobe has finally released the updated version of acroread for SL5, but
> > this version does not run on SL4 or SL3.
> >
> > However, I see that Redhat has released a patched version of
> > acroread-8.1.4 for RHEL 3 and 4, available only through RHN.  Is there
> > any hope of getting patched versions of acroread for SL3 and 4?  CERN
> > packages an rpm of acroread 8.1.2 for SLC4, but that was released last
> > December, and so doesn't address the latest PDF security issue.
> >
> > Is there any hope of getting a patched acroread for SL3 and SL4?  What's
> > the legal deal with binary only rpms that get released to RHEL extras?  I
> > suppose that they can't be redistributed by SL?
> >
> > Thanks,
>
> Adobe's products (flash-player and acroread) have very strict
> distribution policies.  We cannot distribution them.
> A past version of acroread did have a loophole in it's license, but that
> was years ago, and the license was changed years ago.
> Troy

OK, thanks Troy.  I had just seen that CERN had released an acroread 8.1.2 rpm 
less than a year ago and thought that maybe there was some procedure by which 
it could be done.

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