There's been a lot of talk about turning various bits of functionality like GMP, MPFR, FFTW and such into packages that simply happen to be pre-loaded by default, making it easy to get a much more spare basic Julia version. This will definitely happen over the summer. Note that OpenBLAS is BSD-license, so using MKL is not necessary for non-GPL Julia.
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Isaiah Norton <isaiah.nor...@gmail.com>wrote: > Rmath too, but I think that is on the way out. All of the licenses are > linked here: > https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/LICENSE.md > > > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Jake Bolewski <jakebolew...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> As readline is now removed I think GMP (BigInt's) and MPFR (arbitrary >> precision floating points) are the only GNU ibraries left if you are able >> to use MKL and don't require FFTW. Steven also working on a branch where >> he provides FFT support in pure julia. >> >> Best, >> Jake >> >> >> On Thursday, April 10, 2014 9:26:55 AM UTC-4, Jay Kickliter wrote: >>> >>> There are bits and pieces in Github issues and posts, but can post a >>> definitive list of what needs to be replaced/removed to make Julia non GPL? >>> Will any functionality be missing? From what I understand I can use MKL for >>> some stuff. I've read that MKL has the ability to mimic FFTW, but will >>> Julia use that interface? >>> >>> For the record I'm not anti-GPL. I'd like to pitch Julia to my company >>> as alternative to Matlab and C++. But our customers can't accept a project >>> built with GPL. It's not a problem now, but I'm looking down the road when >>> Julia can be compiled in to executables. >>> >> >
