> I do not know whether this has recently been changed, but the license for > icc-produced executables used to be rather restrictive. If I remember > correctly, you were not allowed to distribute the binaries, full stop.
Nicholas, this restriction applies (and has always applied) only to Intel's 'evaluation' licence: i.e. you get to try the Intel compilers free for 1 month, but you're not allowed to redistribute any executables you create with them. I don't know if this means that the software actually stops working after a month, I guess it does -they're not as trusting as they used to be! Intel's EULA for all their Software Development Products (including all their compilers) states: "Subject to all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement and any specific restrictions which may appear in the Redistributables text files, Intel grants to you a non-exclusive, non-assignable, fully-paid copyright license to distribute (except if you received the Materials under an Evaluation License as specified below) the Redistributables, including any modifications pursuant to Section 2.B, or any portions thereof, as part of the product or application you developed using the Materials.". I had our lawyers check this ~10 years ago when the compiler was at version ~7 (it's now at 11), since we are commercial and wanted to distribute our own sources & executables, and the conditions on redistribution of user-created executables have not changed in essence since then (obviously redistribution of the compiler executables themselves has never been allowed). What has changed is that the licence conditions have become somewhat more restrictive in the sense that academic institutional users are no longer eligible for free licences! - though they do get a discount off the fully paid-up commercial licence. A personal non-commercial licence (which does not cover use by academics) is still free. In all cases (except evaluation) executables can be freely distributed, along with any of Intel's DLLs that are required to run it. Please note that I have no financial interest in Intel ;). Cheers -- Ian
