Of course, Lori, one must get an Adobe Reader Distributor Agreement
before putting the Reader installer on a CD.

But if you are not really the one "distributing" the CD-ROM with the
Reader installer (you are merely the one who created the CD),
mustn't you tell your clients (for instance the organizing committee
of the conference) to get their own license too? Although you may
have your own license, you cannot not request a license on behalf of
your client and you certainly cannot be aware of the whereabouts of
all the copies of the CD once you have delivered the final products
to the client.

Under this agreement, the distributor is required to keep a complete
listing of all the people who have received the CD. The distributor
is also strictly forbidden to supply the CD to countries under the
USA commercial embargo. The list on the agreement is not very
exhaustive, one has to search.

Also, Adobe does not allow distributing an older copy of the Reader
if the most recent Reader has been released for more than 6 months.
It is also mentioned, if I remember correctly, that one must destroy
the copies of the CD that have an old version of the Reader. This
cannot be done. Clients will continue to distribute their old copies
of the CD. I guess that it is still possible to obtain some
conference proceedings that were published on CD-ROM several years
ago. The content of the papers is what matters. End users will not
install old versions of the Reader when they already have a newer
version on their system.

It would be simple if the end users would get their own copy of the
Reader directly from Adobe website. But apparently, some still have a
very slow connection or perhaps no connection at all.

Denise
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D. Brien <dbrien@koclas.com>
Koclas Logic Systems Ltd.
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On Oct 16, 2005, at 6:01 PM, Lori DeFurio wrote:



> Please note, if you want to distribute Adobe Reader you need to
> complete
> the Adobe Reader distribution request
> http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/distribute.html
>
>




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