On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Robert Kern <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Matthew Brett <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 3:18 AM, Robert Kern <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
