[Fwd: Re: Adobe reader]

[Hans de Goede]

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