Re: [gentoo-dev] "Commercial" software in portage

[Georgi Georgiev]

maillog: 22/09/2005-09:28:53(-0400): Chris Gianelloni types
> I thought I had made it fairly clear, but I can elaborate.
>
> "commercial" would be anything that requires a purchase to use.  This
> could be anything from specific media (such as most games) to a CD key
> or license file.
>
> The basic idea is to put in a marker to let people know that "This won't
> work without you spending money."
>
> This isn't a marker of whether something is proprietary, but rather a
> marker of whether something works out of the box.  Sun's JDK, while it
> could be argued whether it would be "commercial" or not, does work out
> of the box, once you fetch the sources.  You don't have to purchase it.

So, how do you treat icc? It requires a license key, but you can get the
key for free after registering. The package does not cost money and does
not work out of the box.

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