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Re: Debathena beta
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Sat Mar 14 17:38:50 2009
Message-Id: <200903142137.n2ELbnIS018068@dit.mit.edu>
To: Mike Khusid <mkhusid@MIT.EDU>
cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU, broder@MIT.EDU, agrawalr@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 14 Mar 2009 12:49:19 EDT."
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Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:37:49 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
Hi,
I'm the maintainer of the acro locker. I intend to keep maintaining it for
the forseeable future, unless we decide to install the mediubuntu version,
so add "acro; acroread" will continue to launch acroread. I haven't carefully
read the license for each, but from experience with Adobe I strongly suspect
the licenses will be very similar if not identical.
I realize this will make it somewhat slower to launch, but an argument
for continuing to run it from a locker is that there has been a long
succession of serious security vulnerabilities, including a current one
that is not yet patched. I doubt it will be the last. I can most likely
get a patched update out in a locker quite a while before Ubuntu releases
one.
Alex
>Considering acroread was provided in Athena 9, it got to be available
>under the same terms for other Linux distros. It's the same product,
>after all. I doubt Medibuntu packaging changes the license terms in any
>way. But I am not expert on software licensing.
>Mike
Rohan Agrawal wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Thanks for the response.
>>
>> Regarding acroread, I know it exists in medibuntu, so if there aren't
>> legal issues with using medibuntu, it wouldn't be more work to have
>> acroread installed. Aside from just having a much more polished feel
>> than evince, I think acroread's printing options (specifying the lpr
>> command, multiple pages per sheet, etc) are very nice. I understand
>> that there might be license issues with using medibuntu though.
>>
>> About the java plugin, I don't have any problem with openjdk. My
>> comment was more about consistency - the computer I used had the sun
>> jdk, but the icedtea plugin, and thus the openjdk jre. I figured it
>> should either be sun jdk and sun plugin, or openjdk and icedtea plugin.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rohan
>>
>> On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 20:03 -0400, Evan Broder wrote:
>>> Hi Rohan -
>>> Thanks for getting in touch.
>>>
>>> Rohan Agrawal wrote:
>>> >
>>> > 1. Why has it been decided not to install acroread locally? I
>>> > imagine many people would prefer it to evince, and running it
>>> > from the locker is quite slow.
