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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.
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> 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.
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> 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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