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From: "Sébastien Fabbro" <bicatali@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] redistribute intel rpms
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:45:35
Message-Id: 20091106164523.397b9800@canfar.phys.uvic.ca
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] redistribute intel rpms by "Robin H. Johnson"
1 On Saturday 07 November, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
2
3 > On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 04:04:41PM -0800, Sébastien Fabbro wrote:
4 > > We have a few fetch restricted Intel packages in the main tree (icc,
5 > > ifc, mkl, ipp, tbb). All except tbb are closed-source but free with
6 > > non-commercial licenses. Lately upstream has repackaged the icc and
7 > > ifort (ifc) as a big tar blob containing all of them, but also
8 > > release some of them separately. For various reasons we would like
9 > > to keep separate ebuilds. The problem is the separate packages have
10 > > common libraries, causing duplication and file collisions. So the
11 > > idea was to download the tar blob which contain a few binary rpms
12 > > and base new ebuilds on these rpms. This means we will have to
13 > > re-distribute the rpms on our mirrors. I can't understand from the
14 > > many licenses if we are allowed to do it, it surprisingly looks
15 > > like we can do it.
16 > >
17 > > Anyone with better understanding of the licences could help?
18 > > Upstream does not answer.
19 > Can you list the license files please? I'll poke at them after that.
20 >
21
22 The one in the tree (Intel-SDP) has slightly changed. New one:
23 http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-software-development-products-license-agreement/
24
25 --
26 Sebastien

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Re: [gentoo-dev] redistribute intel rpms "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>