[364] in athena10
Re: Adding software "to the release"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Chen)
Mon Aug 4 19:07:47 2008
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 19:07:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kevin Chen <kchen@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
cc: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>, athena10@mit.edu
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On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Greg Hudson wrote:
> (Acrobat will not be part of debathena-cluster-software because there is
> no Debian package for it, since it's not free software. But evince, the
> Ubuntu default PDF viewer, is good enough to replace the core
> functionality of viewing and printing PDF files. The locker can still
> be used for corner cases.)
acroread exists in Medibuntu: http://www.medibuntu.org/
I'm not sure if there are any legal issues involved here, and I'm not sure
what its relationship to Ubuntu is.
The description of the package does note:
This package is in Medibuntu because Ubuntu no longer provides it as it
is not freely redistribuable.
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Kevin Chen
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