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. -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffrey Anderson | [email protected] Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Office: 50A-5104E | Mailstop 50A-5101 Phone: 510 486-4208 | Fax: 510 486-6808
