Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 15:34:42 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul Seniura" <pdseniura@techie.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: I believe lang/icc* are not open-source nor 'free', right? Message-ID: <20040318213442.D38635C35@techpc04.okladot.state.ok.us> In-Reply-To: <200403122136.i2CLaCm9096276@repoman.freebsd.org> References: <200403122136.i2CLaCm9096276@repoman.freebsd.org>
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I don't want to discuss Intel compilers on AMD or whatever else the issues are in the previous threads. I am posting this on the -ports forum because I am asking about lang/icc* strictly as ports and how I will use them as ports. The lang/icc* ports are marked 'IGNORE'. Running a 'make' under lang/icc7, for instance, verbatimly shows: ===> icc7-7.1.035_2 Go to Intel Premier Support, https://premier.intel.com, to obtain l_cc_pc_7.1.035.tar. Product updates such as this compiler are posted regularly on Premier Support. You must have a license to obtain access to Premier Support. If you do not already have a license go to http://www.intel.com/software/products/compilers/ to review licensing options (evaluation, commercial, and free non-commercial) and obtain a license. Put l_cc_pc_7.1.035.tar into /usr/ports/distfiles and run make again. Well, here is the problem. I interpret Intel's licensing to be based on the User's intention (in this case: for my job, me as a system programmer) -- not the licensing that the FreeBSD Project Itself was able to obtain. FWIW, Intel's asking price culled from their website (perhaps to prove I have read their literature): Intel® C++ Compiler for Linux License Pricing (For Volume Purchase Order By Phone) Product Price Support Service Renewal $399 $160 per license per license (what lynx shows me, anyway) Sorry, no can do. Since I am trying to show state govmt how 'free' and open-source software can be used, I will be forbidden to use Intel's compilers AND ANYTHING GENERATED BY THEM: I will not be permitted to buy a license, and state govmt *never* gets 'non-commercial' licenses AFAIUHOSM (as far as I understand history on such matters). I'm not saying get rid of the ports -- not at all. Other users need to be able to have the choices. Let me cite one circumstance that would stand out as a clear violation: If, for example, in the future any part of the CD ISOs are built by 'icc', then I/we are forbidden to use them. I will therefore absolutely oppose any such changes in FreeBSD itself, in its default build configurations, in its (binary or 'ready-to-run') distribution, and so on. Keep FreeBSD 'free' AND open-source. All of it. Thank you, -- Paul Seniura System Specialist State of Okla. D.O.T.
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