Re: GR: Removal of non-free
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
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