[Numpy-discussion] [Python-ideas] Should our default random number generator be secure?

[Robert Kern]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 14 Sep 2015 19:02:58 +0200
> Sturla Molden <sturla.molden at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 14/09/15 10:34, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> >
> > > If Numpy wanted to switch to a different generator, and if Numba
wanted
> > > to remain compatible with Numpy, one of the PCG functions would be an
> > > excellent choice (also for CPU performance, incidentally).
> >
> > Is Apache license ok in NumPy?
>
> While I don't know Numpy's policy precisely, I have no idea why a
> modern non-copyleft license such as Apache wouldn't be ok.

GPLv2 incompatibility: http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html

> That said, PCG looks simple enough that you can reimplement it (or at
> least the variants that are of interest to you) independently without
> too much effort.

The author has agreed in principle to relicense the code as MIT, though has
not yet merged the PR that accomplishes this yet. That said, we'd probably
end up doing a significant amount of rewriting so that we will have a C
implementation of software-uint128 arithmetic.

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Robert Kern
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