[Numpy-discussion] Default builds of OpenBLAS development branch are now fork safe

[Robert Kern]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Sturla Molden <sturla.molden at gmail.com> wrote:
> Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I see it should be possible to build a full blas and partial lapack
>> library with eigen [1] [2].
>
> Eigen has a licensing issue as well, unfortunately, MPL2.
>
> E.g. it requires recipients to be informed of the MPL requirements (cf.
> impossible with pip install numpy).

That's not the relevant condition. That's easily taken care of by
including the MPL2 license text in the binary alongside numpy's BSD
license text. This is no different than numpy's BSD license itself,
which requires that the license text be included. It's not like people
can't distribute any MPL2 project on PyPI just because pip doesn't
print out the license before installing.

The extra-BSD conditions of the MPL2 are sections 3.1 and 3.2.

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Robert Kern