Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 18:08:43 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Paul Seniura <pdseniura@techie.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I believe lang/icc* are not open-source nor 'free', right? Message-ID: <20040319020843.GA14259@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20040319015159.0B9C011E734@scifi.homeip.net> References: <200403122136.i2CLaCm9096276@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040318213442.D38635C35@techpc04.okladot.state.ok.us> <p0602043abc7fca5da6c6@[128.113.24.47]> <20040319015159.0B9C011E734@scifi.homeip.net>
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--EVF5PPMfhYS0aIcm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 07:51:59PM -0600, Paul Seniura wrote: >=20 > The discussions on cvs-src list were almost making me > panic, so I had to say something quick from another > perspective. My previous msg has header lines pointing to > the beginning of that thread, starting with the commits to > allow building kernel with icc. Seems the other > respondents here haven't taken time to read them to > understand where I'm coming from. They are/were actually > considering publicly distributing kernels built with icc -- > something we are not privvy to use, as I understand the > license, and so must be clearly marked. I believe you seriously misunderstand the license. Anyone who holds a commercial license may produce binaries that may be used in any way they wish. Thus if the FreeBSD project used its commercial license for icc to produce kernel snapshots or ports or whatever, those products may be redistribued and used by anyone. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --EVF5PPMfhYS0aIcm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAWlYrXY6L6fI4GtQRAnHXAKDg4xbingWa15LgkCRQZ5NLUS/E2gCfdIba 6C0M1mAa1UE61wKJzW/6wRk= =v0vR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EVF5PPMfhYS0aIcm--
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