Re: [gentoo-dev] redistribute intel rpms

[Sébastien Fabbro]

On Saturday 07 November, Robin H. Johnson wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 04:45:23PM -0800, Sébastien Fabbro wrote:
> > > > Anyone with better understanding of the licences could help?
> > > > Upstream does not answer.
> > > Can you list the license files please? I'll poke at them after
> > > that.
> Files, plural. If each RPM in the blob has separate licenses, we need
> to review all of them.

This license is the only one I could find in the "Intel Compiler
Professional Edition" which is the one tar ball we are thinking of
splitting.

> Additionally, from the base license:
> ] Subject to all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement and
> any specific ] restrictions which may appear in the Redistributables
> text files, Intel grants ] to you a non-exclusive, non-assignable
> copyright license to distribute (except ] under an Evaluation License
> as specified below) the Redistributables, or any ] portions thereof,
> as part of the product or application you developed using the ]
> Materials.
>
> Thus, we need to review the "any specific restrictions which may
> appear in the Redistributables text files" for problems as well.
>

The "Redistributables" seem a bit different in Intel sense, see my
post in [1]. I also put the redist file in [2].

> At a first reading, it smells badly. Do you know of any other distro
> that is redistribution the files as-is from upstream or other
> derivative distributable?
>

We are the only distro having Intel stuff in the repos as far as I know.
Most of the big distros have official support but users need to install
it from Intel.

Thanks for looking at this!

[1] http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/intel-c-compiler/topic/69175/
[2] http://dev.gentoo.org/~bicatali/
--
Sebastien