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On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>wrote: |
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> On 25 Sep 2010, at 03:17, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> >>> ... |
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> >>>>> I've heard good things about it, but I'm under the impression it is |
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> not free (as in beer). Is that true? |
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> >>> I don't know but I can emerge -q icc |
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> >> There is other non-Free software you can install with Portage. |
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> >> Just yesterday I was looking at games-fps/ut2003 and games-fps/ut2004 - |
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> I |
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> >> believe these require the game's installer CDs to work. |
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> >> I would imagine that if you were to emerge ICC it would require an |
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> >> activation key before it would compile anything, otherwise we'd all be |
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> using |
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> >> it. |
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> > Wouldn't that be kind of senseless since the source code is distributed? |
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> > Knowing it would not be hard to bypass the activation key, if they wanted |
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> > money for it they wouldn't let the source code out, license or no |
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> license. |
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> Just because you can emerge a package doesn't mean the full source is |
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> distributed. It could be a binary package, it could contain a small binary |
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> blob for activation. |
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> Paul Hartman provides more info in his post of 24 September 2010 23:16:30 |
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> GMT+01:00, but I was specifically replying to the assumption or implication |
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> "if it can be emerged it must be free". |
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> You are right. Thanks for the clarification. |
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++ kevin |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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