You misunderstood, we are not going to distribute Sage linked to MKL. This is obviously not legal to distribute. But it should be possible for you to compile Sage with alternate BLAS implementations on your own machine if you chose to.
On Sunday, August 31, 2014 10:53:49 PM UTC+1, Fernando Perez wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 3:24 AM, Volker Braun <vbrau...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I do have a MKL license (Linux + OSX) for the Sage project.... > > > Who is going to assume the indemnification liability on behalf of Sage if > MKL-linked binaries are distributed? > > And even if someone does, it will require some form of license > modification to prevent reverse-engineering, so this would probably have to > be a 'special edition, non-GPL' version of Sage. I haven't the foggiest > idea if that's even kosher with the GPL, but I suspect not. > > As per the MKL terms: > > > https://github.com/numpy/numpy/wiki/Numerical-software-on-Windows#blas--lapack-libraries > > Those terms stopped us dead in our tracks when we looked at shipping numpy > binaries linked against MKL. > > With the MKL, the cost of the license is the least of the issues. > > Cheers, > > f > -- > Fernando Perez (@fperez_org; http://fperez.org) > fperez.net-at-gmail: mailing lists only (I ignore this when swamped!) > fernando.perez-at-berkeley: contact me here for any direct mail > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
