[SciPy-Dev] [Numpy-discussion] Windows wheels using MKL?

[Matthew Brett]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 3:18 AM, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> 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