On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 00:37 +0900, Georgi Georgiev wrote:
> maillog: 22/09/2005-09:28:53(-0400): Chris Gianelloni types
> > I thought I had made it fairly clear, but I can elaborate.
> > 
> > "commercial" would be anything that requires a purchase to use.  This
> > could be anything from specific media (such as most games) to a CD key
> > or license file.
> > 
> > The basic idea is to put in a marker to let people know that "This won't
> > work without you spending money."
> > 
> > This isn't a marker of whether something is proprietary, but rather a
> > marker of whether something works out of the box.  Sun's JDK, while it
> > could be argued whether it would be "commercial" or not, does work out
> > of the box, once you fetch the sources.  You don't have to purchase it.
> 
> So, how do you treat icc? It requires a license key, but you can get the
> key for free after registering. The package does not cost money and does
> not work out of the box.

Is that a full license or some kind of demo ala VMWare Workstation?

Oh yeah, and I don't maintain icc, so that would really be up to the
maintainers, but *I* would probably put commercial on it.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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