pintool license

[nicolas_n_]

Hello,

As the pintool ( https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/pintool ) licence suggest, it cannot be redistribued in any form. I was wondering I could acquire (buy) a licence which could permit that; I couldn't find anything on this subject, as I don't see it on any Intel's commercial software.

I am working with source code as input (modifying it), and pintool would help me to show the performance impact of the modification.

Best regards,

  Nicolas.

[QIAOMIN_Q_]

Hello Nicolas,

Pin is proprietary software developed and supported by Intel and is supplied free of charge for non-commercial use.

The license for Pin is included in the kit in a file called LICENSE and can be previewed here. The Pin kit includes some separately licensed software and its license is in a file called ExtLib/EXTLICENSE and can be previewed here.

When you use the Pin kit to build a pintool on linux, it will link statically with libelf and libdwarf. The libraries were written by a third party. For the convenience of pintool developers, we include these libraries in the Pin kit. They have a LGPL license. If you want to distribute a pintool, you are responsible for ensuring that you comply with the LGPL.

For Pin questions, please go to this forum at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/pinheads/.

Thank you.
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