On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 3:18 AM, Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> wrote:
It would be confusing to distribute these non-BSD wheels on the same PyPI page that declares most prominently that numpy is BSD-licensed. Adding some text elsewhere on the PyPI page is not going to help very much: people look at the "License: BSD" first and foremost. Nothing stops anyone else from building and distributing MKL-built binaries, a la C. Gohlke, but I don't think it is wise to do so on the PyPI page.
Can you see any circumstances in which we could use the MKL binaries from pypi?
No. Most of the point of adding binary wheels to PyPI would be to make `pip install numpy` work. That gives users *no* chance to see any documentation about the proprietary license of those binaries.
OK - fair enough. Does anyone disagree? If not, I suggest we remove MKL from the options we consider in the future. Cheers, Matthew