Re: [gentoo-dev] redistribute intel rpms

["Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org>]

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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.

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