At 06:43 AM 9/8/2006, Mark Hahn wrote:
I've had grad students and profs in the past get good results using
Matlab, intel and the intel MKL.
it's worth making explicit again: grad students and profs
are not elegible for the "non-commercial" free Intel license.
Again, what? The intel fortran free non-commercial unsupported CANNOT be
used by graduation or in a scientific lab at an university? Why? Where
is this in theirs license?
Intel says explicitly that you only qualify for the non-comm license
if you do not receive any form of financial compensation for using it.
thus a grad student normally gets a stipend, and so would NOT
qualify as non-commercial. if the grad student is only using it as
part of a hobby, or as part of a charity project, they would
qualify. use in a classroom/lab
is also "commercial" to Intel because the university is being paid.
Intel supports this interpretation by offering specific classroom licenses
and academic discounts.
Intel is just redefining "non-commercial", which the rest of the
universe uses to mean "not a for-profit company".
And, given the interest in universities (and other research labs) in
deriving income from intellectual property developed... I think you
could make a case that research activities are considered a "income
source" for many of these. The overall institution might be
not-for-profit, but activities within aren't.
It's also easier for intel to define it this way.. If you use the
not-for-profit kind of criteria you wind up with all sorts of
discussion about "expense reimbursement", "facility chargebacks",
whether you have a 501(c)3 letter, etc. You can't just say, I spend
more than I make, so I'm not-for-profit: Amazon.com didn't make any
profit for many years
Sort of like amateur, with respect to athletics.
To me, the license reads pretty clear... you can fool with it at home
to learn about the product, and tinker to your heart's content, but
don't do it as a "job" or for "product development".
James Lux, P.E.
Spacecraft Radio Frequency Subsystems Group
Flight Communications Systems Section
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mail Stop 161-213
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena CA 91109
tel: (818)354-2075
fax: (818)393-6875
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