Avi Bryant wrote:
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Joshua Gargus schwa@fastmail.us wrote:
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?
Maybe I missed this, but - is there anything stopping someone from freely distributing binaries of Squeak that have been compiled with ICC?
IANAL, but no.
Here are the Intel tool page and the license agreement: http://www.intel.com/cd/software/products/asmo-na/eng/index.htm http://www.intel.com/cd/software/products/asmo-na/eng/346084.htm
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: - clearly state that it's not for commercial use, or - cough up the money for licenses for the VM maintainers
Josh
Avi