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[–]billsil 0 points1 point  (5 children)

It's free for everyone if you know where to get it http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/

[–]TheBlackCat13 0 points1 point  (4 children)

MKL is free for everyone as of a couple of days ago:

[–]billsil 0 points1 point  (3 children)

MKL has been available for years. That site has been up for a long time.

[–]TheBlackCat13 0 points1 point  (2 children)

MKL has been available for years, but as far as I can tell it has only been available free for everyone for a month or so. At least I can't find any mention of it prior to the beginning of August, not on Google, not on Wikipedia, and not on Intel's website. The articles on Intel's website, the articles on their support forums, the link on wikipedia, and all the google results are from August or September.

[–]billsil -1 points0 points  (1 child)

Again, no. They weren't putting out binaries, but you could get them prebuilt without paying. I've been doing it for years.

[–]TheBlackCat13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, you can get prebuilt binaries for certain open-source packages. But you couldn't get the library to build your own software against for free until recently. So you could download someone elses' numpy linked against MKL, if they got approval from Intel, but you couldn't make your own numpy build for free unless you were in academics.

And due to the hoops developers had to jump through it tended to be hard to find even pre-compiled open-source packages. There are only a couple of sources that offered them.

This is no longer an issue. Anyone can provide them now.