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On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 00:37 +0900, Georgi Georgiev wrote: |
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> maillog: 22/09/2005-09:28:53(-0400): Chris Gianelloni types |
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> > I thought I had made it fairly clear, but I can elaborate. |
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> > "commercial" would be anything that requires a purchase to use. This |
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> > could be anything from specific media (such as most games) to a CD key |
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> > or license file. |
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> > The basic idea is to put in a marker to let people know that "This won't |
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> > work without you spending money." |
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> > This isn't a marker of whether something is proprietary, but rather a |
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> > marker of whether something works out of the box. Sun's JDK, while it |
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> > could be argued whether it would be "commercial" or not, does work out |
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> > of the box, once you fetch the sources. You don't have to purchase it. |
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> So, how do you treat icc? It requires a license key, but you can get the |
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> key for free after registering. The package does not cost money and does |
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> not work out of the box. |
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Is that a full license or some kind of demo ala VMWare Workstation? |
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Oh yeah, and I don't maintain icc, so that would really be up to the |
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maintainers, but *I* would probably put commercial on it. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead |
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Games - Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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