[tex-live] movie15 and media9

[Siep Kroonenberg]

On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 08:48:15PM +0000, Robin Fairbairns wrote:
> Heiko Oberdiek <heiko.oberdiek at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 05:16:48PM +0100, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> > 
> > > 2012/3/18 Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk>:
> > > > Victor Ivrii <vivrii at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Martin Schröder <martin at oneiros.de> wrote:
> > > >> > 2012/3/18 Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>:
> > > >> >> Linux. AR can freely be downloaded. I have seen AR included on many
> > > >> >> CD's with other products, maybe it would even be legal to distribute
> > > >> >> it with TL (I do not know, I have not studied the license).
> > > >> >
> > > >> > No, it isn't. You need permission from Adobe. And anyway: AR isn't free.
> > > >>
> > > >> I am afraid that this interpretation would axe from TL the host of
> > > >> packages which rely upon Adobe Reader for parsing (either embedded
> > > >> players or javascript or comments).
> > > >
> > > > that is the intention.
> > > >
> > > > unfortunately, alexander grahn gave karl berry a list of packages that
> > > > use features of acrocr*p reader.
> > > >
> > > > myself, i'm worried about hyperref (i don't know enough to be sure
> > > > whether it relies of acrocr*p reader, for some of its many functions)...
> > 
> > It's clearly useful for free PDF readers (links, bookmarks, ...).
> > IMHO "not require nonfree software to be useful" does not mean
> > that any support of nonfree software is forbidden.
> > 
> > > Hyperlinks work in ghostview but I am not avare of any PDF viewer that
> > > can display outlines.
> > 
> > xpdf.
> > 
> > > If this happens, almost all documents will be
> > > nonfree because they rely on hyperref.
> > 
> > No, hyperref is free, it's license is LPPL.
> 
> its licence isn't relevant.  movie15 is lppl, but has been removed from
> tl.
> 
> the uk tex faq is released pd, but with the code you wrote for me that
> produces popups in the pdf version of the faq, istm that the faq should
> not be in tex live.

Do you imply that the FAQ is now useless without working popups?

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Siep Kroonenberg