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
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