Re: [gentoo-dev] redistribute intel rpms

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

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On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 04:45:23PM -0800, Sébastien Fabbro wrote:
> > > 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.
Files, plural. If each RPM in the blob has separate licenses, we need to review
all of them.

Additionally, from the base license:
] Subject to all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement and any specific
] restrictions which may appear in the Redistributables text files, Intel grants
] to you a non-exclusive, non-assignable copyright license to distribute (except
] under an Evaluation License as specified below) the Redistributables, or any
] portions thereof, as part of the product or application you developed using the
] Materials.

Thus, we need to review the "any specific restrictions which may appear in the
Redistributables text files" for problems as well.

At a first reading, it smells badly. Do you know of any other distro that is
redistribution the files as-is from upstream or other derivative
distributable?

P.S.,
As I feel it is appropriate here, IANAL, and this should not be construed as
being legal advice. Rather, I feel sufficiently -versed in open source
licensing issues that I can say if something is going to be clear or too grey
to be certain.

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