[Fwd: Re: Adobe reader]

[Hans de Goede]

Ivo Manca wrote:
> Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Ivo Manca wrote:
>>   
>>> Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>     
>>>> Ivo Manca wrote:
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>>>> Hey Richi Plana,
>>>>>
>>>>> Before the user can download any "third-party app", he must accept the same licenses that he has to accept when he's manually downloading the program from the website. We will use Autodownloader's capabilities for this.
>>>>>
>>>>> In the case of Adobe Reader, we'll first show:
>>>>>
>>>>> "By downloading software from the Adobe web site, you
>>>>> agree to the terms of our license agreements, including that you agree
>>>>> not to use Adobe Reader software with any other software, plug-in or
>>>>> enhancement which uses or relies on Adobe Reader when converting or
>>>>> transforming PDF files into other file formats."
>>>>>
>>>>> And then a dialog with the contents of http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/acrreula.html
>>>>>
>>>>>     
>>>>>         
>>>> Hmm,
>>>>
>>>> autodownloader will need to be modified then to be able to display the content 
>>>> of an url in one of the accept boxes, because we do not have permission to 
>>>> distribute adobe's eula.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Hans
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>> I already suspected that we needed to modify autodownloader one way or
>>> another, so this can be done.
>>> I was not sure whether or not it was allowed to distribute an eula
>>> though, but I had my suspections.
>>>
>>> Is it allowed to just download the EULA's text to the window, or do we
>>> also have to leave the whole page intact?
>>>
>>>     
>> IANAL, but I think just downloading the text will be fine (but how do we 
>> extract it from the webpage?)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Hans
>>
>>
>>   
> Seems quite easy? Just download the whole page
> (http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/acrreula.html), then delete
> everything above "<h1 class="adobereader">Adobe Reader</h1>"  and below
> the next occuring "<!-- InstanceEndEditable -->".
> You could add a fail-back check to be sure it _could_ be a valid EULA
> (no way to check for sure, I suppose), and notice the user that the
> source can not be downloaded because the EULA can't be found if it does
> not pass the check. You could use a regexp for instance in combination
> with a minumum size..
> 
> If problems arise, or the layout is changed, the autodownloader file
> just needs to be updated.
> 
> Example for a sample autodownloader file:
> [MESSAGE]
>     [URL]http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/acrreula.html[/URL]
>     [MESSAGE_START]<h1 class="adobereader">Adobe Reader</h1>[/MESSAGE_START]
>     [MESSAGE_END]<!-- InstanceEndEditable -->[/MESSAGE_END]
>     [FORMAT]HTML[/FORMAT]
>     [CHECK]some RegEXP magic[/CHECK]
>     [MINSIZE]20480[/MINSIZE]
> [/MESSAGE]
> 
> I would personally say that this will at least show that you take the
> best effort to be sure the user sees and accept the EULA, but is it
> enough, or overkill?
> 
> Ivo
> 

I have just taken a look, Adobe's own download webpage doesnot show the eula, 
just a remark that by downloading you agree to it and a link to it, that can be 
easily done in autodownloader as is. Your idea might come in handy for other 
packages though.

Regards,

Hans