On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 10:00 PM, Simon Blomberg <s.blombe...@uq.edu.au> wrote: > Is MKL open source software? If not, that could be the sticking point. > > Simon.
IANAL, but from reading here: https://software.intel.com/en-us/en-us/intel-mkl It is neither Libre nor Gratis. But it is royalty free. IOW, you cannot give the software to another. You must pay a license fee to Intel to use it. But you do not need to pay Intel any money to distribute your executable to others. For a commercial license, it is not too bad. The best that I can see for R would be if someone were to post a "how to use MKL for compiling R" type document. And if someone really needed to have the MKL performance boost, they could license MKL for themselves, modify R to use it, and recompile. I am not suggesting this be done. But that would most likely mean that the modifier CAN NOT distribute the changed R executable to others because of the GPL. I'm pretty sure that mixing in licensed code with GPL'd code __and distributing the executable__ is not kosher. That would violate section #3 of the GPL. -- There is nothing more pleasant than traveling and meeting new people! Genghis Khan Maranatha! <>< John McKown ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
