[Fedora-legal-list] Re: FlexiBLAS as BLAS/LAPACK manager - Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal

[Miro Hrončok]

On 01. 07. 20 16:24, Ben Cotton wrote:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/FlexiBLAS_as_BLAS/LAPACK_manager
>
> == Summary ==
> BLAS/LAPACK packages will be compiled against the FlexiBLAS wrapper
> library, which will set OpenBLAS as system-wide default backend, and
> at the same time will provide a proper switching mechanism that
> currently Fedora lacks.
>
> ...
>
> == Scope ==
> Proposal owners: Modify the SPECs of the BLAS/LAPACK-dependent
>
> packages to build against FlexiBLAS instead of the current backend
> they are using.

I wonder, given FlexiBLAS is released under GPL (and not LGPL), whether this 
means we would need to change the licenses of all non-GPL packages that will be 
linked to FlexiBLAS to GPL.

CCing legal.