Freedom Issue #2707
[intel-mkl] has nonfree Intel Simplified Software License
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Description
Package: community/intel-mkl 2020.1.217-1
According to [1], Intel® Math Kernel Library is under ISSL [2], that states the following:
Use and Redistribution. You may use and redistribute the software (the
"Software"), without modification, provided the following conditions are met:
...
- No reverse engineering, decompilation, or disassembly of this Software is
permitted.
This license does not give at least freedom 1 and 3 [3] to the users, so can be classified as nonfree and blacklisted in FSDG compliant distros.
[1] https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-math-kernel-library-license-faq
[2] https://software.intel.com/en-us/license/intel-simplified-software-license
[3] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
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Updated by bill-auger over 3 years ago
that license seems to suggest that this is a blob with no sources - if thats the case, all we can do is blacklist it
Updated by GNUtoo over 2 years ago
- https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/articles/end-user-license-agreement.html#collapseCollapsible1605300412949 indeed prohibit decompilation
- The PKGBUILD (https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-community/blob/packages/intel-mkl/trunk/PKGBUILD) only ships binary files without doing any compilation
We could safely blacklist it.
Updated by GNUtoo over 2 years ago
- Assignee set to GNUtoo
- Status changed from unconfirmed to confirmed
I've added it to the blacklist package.
Updated by bill-auger 6 months ago
- Related to Freedom Issue #3110: [python-pytorch] requires intel-mkl (unfree) added
Updated by bill-auger 6 months ago
- Related to Freedom Issue #3456: [intel-oneapi-tbb][intel-oneapi-basekit]: possibly non-free added