Are there any more liberally licensed libraries that get close to the functionality in MPFR, I know that there are some non-GPL BigInt implementations out there although I don't think any match GMP's performance.
On Thursday, April 10, 2014 10:13:20 AM UTC-4, Stefan Karpinski wrote: > > 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...@gmail.com<javascript:> > > 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 >> <jakebo...@gmail.com<javascript:> >> > 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. >>>> >>> >> >
