Re: [gentoo-dev] redistribute intel rpms

["Sébastien Fabbro" <bicatali@gentoo.org>]

On Saturday 07 November, Robin H. Johnson wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 04:04:41PM -0800, Sébastien Fabbro wrote:
> > We have a few fetch restricted Intel packages in the main tree (icc,
> > ifc, mkl, ipp, tbb). All except tbb are closed-source but free with
> > non-commercial licenses. Lately upstream has repackaged the icc and
> > ifort (ifc) as a big tar blob containing all of them, but also
> > release some of them separately. For various reasons we would like
> > to keep separate ebuilds. The problem is the separate packages have
> > common libraries, causing duplication and file collisions. So the
> > idea was to download the tar blob which contain a few binary rpms
> > and base new ebuilds on these rpms. This means we will have to
> > re-distribute the rpms on our mirrors. I can't understand from the
> > many licenses if we are allowed to do it, it surprisingly looks
> > like we can do it.
> > 
> > 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.
> 

The one in the tree (Intel-SDP) has slightly changed. New one:
http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-software-development-products-license-agreement/

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Sebastien