El Lunes 17 Ago 2009 20:56:27 Eric J Korpela escribió:
> 2)  Is IMKL or ACML covered by the GPL v2 clause "However, as a
> special exception, the source code distributed need not include
> anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary
> form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the
> operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component
> itself accompanies the executable."  or the GPL v3 clause I posted
> earlier (if the license is "v2 or later")?
>
> If the Intel compiler is required in order to use IMKL and an AMD
> compiler is required to use ACML, you could probably make the claim
> that it is allowed, especially if those libraries are included by
> default in any builds with that compiler.   If you can link to these
> libraries using a stock GCC or Visual-C++ compiler, then that claim
> gets more difficult to make.

For this point, I think you should ask <licensing at fsf dot org>.
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