Github user fommil commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/4448#issuecomment-73380448
@srowen I've had a big discussion with Apache about this and it went
nowhere, even though IP laywers stepped up to back up my stance. I firmly
believe the Apache stance on LGPL is FUD and driven entirely by politics. In
any case, my point in this particular case is that I find it truly ridiculous
that Apache cared more about the LGPL than the genuine threat of distributing
proprietary binaries with Spark... which somebody might do inadvertently
because they "just copied all the libs that were needed for it to run on my
machine"
@mengxr I'm teasing re: advertising :stuck_out_tongue: I'll update to have
only one link, but it'll be a real PITA for me to update the talk slides to
point to the video (the org-mode/revealjs format doesn't allow arbitrary fields
in the title slide). I should probably do it anyway.
Re: gfortran... **no** there is absolutely no requirement for a system
BLAS/LAPACK to depend on the GNU Fortran library. This is because JBLAS uses
GFORTRAN-compiled binaries. I have Intel MKL and it definitely doesn't require
gfortran to operate.
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