[Numpy-discussion] [SciPy-Dev] Windows wheels using MKL?

[Robert Kern]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 3:18 AM, Robert Kern <robert.kern at 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.

-- 
Robert Kern