On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 12:11 PM, Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> wrote:
I don't think permission from Intel is the blocking issue for putting these binaries up on PyPI. Even with Intel's permission, we would be putting up proprietary binaries on a page that is explicitly claiming that the files linked therein are BSD-licensed. The binaries could not be redistributed with any GPLed module, say, pygsl.

We could host them on numpy.org on their own page that clearly explained the license of those files, but I think PyPI is out.


Can't PyPi re-direct -- so they can actualy be hosted somewhere else, but "pip install numpy" would still work?

IIUC, The Intel libs have the great advantage of run-time selection of hardware specific code -- yes? So they would both work and give high performance on most machines (all?). Much as I am a fan of open source, there doesn't appear to be anything  as good out there.

-CHB


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