On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:42:47PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > > As a matter of fact, both acroread and netscape-* had free replacements > (although not identical) for years. One of them perhaps a bit less > functional than the non-free one (xpdf), the other ones quite more so > (mozilla, konqueror). Still, they were not removed from non-free by the > first sight of a free replacement, but got abandoned because of the zlib > security exploit, which could not be fixed lacking the source. Acroread can't be distributed - Adobe changed the licence conditions under which their Acrobat reader could be distributed.
Andy
