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Avi Bryant wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Joshua Gargus <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:schwa@fastmail.us"><schwa@fastmail.us></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">For my personal Squeaking, of course I wouldn't pay for ICC. But if someone
is working for a company whose product is performance sensitive, why
wouldn't they spend a few hundred dollars to improve performance as much as
$10000s of engineering effort would, especially if it reduces
time-to-market?
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Maybe I missed this, but - is there anything stopping someone from
freely distributing binaries of Squeak that have been compiled with
ICC?
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IANAL, but no.<br>
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Here are the Intel tool page and the license agreement:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.intel.com/cd/software/products/asmo-na/eng/index.htm">http://www.intel.com/cd/software/products/asmo-na/eng/index.htm</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.intel.com/cd/software/products/asmo-na/eng/346084.htm">http://www.intel.com/cd/software/products/asmo-na/eng/346084.htm</a><br>
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The license doesn't talk about your code, only the materials that you
obtained from Intel. An exception is the non-commercial license, so if
Squeak.org decided to provide an ICC-compiled binary, we'd either have
to: <br>
- clearly state that it's not for commercial use, or<br>
- cough up the money for licenses for the VM maintainers<br>
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Josh<br>
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Avi
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