[Speex-dev] MKL Patch

Oleg Homenko
Wed, 28 May 2008 07:44:42 -0000

Jean-Marc Valin wrote on 5/28/2008 2:13 AM:
>> Yes, MKL is commercial software and you do need to pay for it, but
>> unlike FFTW it's not GPL. FFTW is useless for any closed-source
program
>> that wishes to use Speex, so this is the non-GPL alternative.
>>
>
> Considering that FFTW also sells licenses for non-GPL use, I tend to
> prefer the FFTW licensing over MKL. Note that GPL doesn't mean
> non-commercial. When RedHat sells a Linux CD, it's commercial although
> there's lots of GPL software included. In any case, since there's
> probably people who want MKL, I'll probably merge that too after I can
> have a look at it.
>
>
Another bad thing bith MKL - it doesn't support ARM family of CPUs :(