On 25 Sep 2010, at 03:17, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >>> ... >>>>> I've heard good things about it, but I'm under the impression it is not >>>>> free (as in beer). Is that true? >>> I don't know but I can emerge -q icc >> >> There is other non-Free software you can install with Portage. >> >> Just yesterday I was looking at games-fps/ut2003 and games-fps/ut2004 - I >> believe these require the game's installer CDs to work. >> >> I would imagine that if you were to emerge ICC it would require an >> activation key before it would compile anything, otherwise we'd all be using >> it. >> > > Wouldn't that be kind of senseless since the source code is distributed? > Knowing it would not be hard to bypass the activation key, if they wanted > money for it they wouldn't let the source code out, license or no license.
Just because you can emerge a package doesn't mean the full source is distributed. It could be a binary package, it could contain a small binary blob for activation. Paul Hartman provides more info in his post of 24 September 2010 23:16:30 GMT+01:00, but I was specifically replying to the assumption or implication "if it can be emerged it must be free". Stroller.
