I believe lang/icc* are not open-source nor 'free', right?

Chris Pressey cpressey at catseye.mine.nu
Thu Mar 18 16:22:27 PST 2004


On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 15:34:42 -0600 (CST)
"Paul Seniura" <pdseniura at techie.com> wrote:

> I don't want to discuss Intel compilers on AMD or whatever
> else the issues are in the previous threads.
> 
> I am posting this on the -ports forum because I am asking
> about lang/icc* strictly as ports and how I will use them
> as ports.
> [...]
> If, for example, in the future any part of the CD ISOs are
> built by 'icc', then I/we are forbidden to use them.

OK... so don't use the icc port to do that... ?

> I will therefore absolutely oppose any such changes in
> FreeBSD itself, in its default build configurations, in
> its (binary or 'ready-to-run') distribution, and so on.
> 
> Keep FreeBSD 'free' AND open-source.
> 
> All of it.

FreeBSD != ports/packages.  That's what "3rd-party" means.

-Chris


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