Re: [R-sig-hpc] License of GotoBLAS was changed to BSD
On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 12:49 +0100, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 16:44 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> > On 26 November 2010 at 23:10, Thomas Weber wrote:
> > | On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:53:09AM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> > | > Wouldn't we want GotoBLAS2 in Debian now that it is BSD-licensed?
> > |
> > | Uh, are you guys aware of
> > | http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/tacc-projects/gotoblas2/faq/ ?
> > |
> > | "GotoBLAS is no longer under active development."
> >
> > We do.
> >
> > The whole BSD release is presumably of consequence of Mr Goto no longer being
> > at U of Texas and working on it.
> >
> > But by getting it into Debian we also give it more exposure and who knows
> > maybe some other folks will pick it up. In the meantime its performance is
> > still better than Atlas in most cases (as e.g. shown in my benchmarking paper
> > / blog posts -- see http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/code/gcbd/
>
> Is there any news / progress on this?
I am in touch with Emmanuel Quémener who opened an ITP on this.
We are planning to work on this deeper once Squeeze is released.
Sylvestre
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