# Are the Julia binaries GPL-free?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/are-the-julia-binaries-gpl-free/19993
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [January 23, 2019, 2:45pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/are-the-julia-binaries-gpl-free/19993 "2019-01-23T14:45:17Z")
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### Author: ![kristoffer.carlsson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/kristoffer.carlsson/32/22_2.png) [@kristoffer.carlsson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kristoffer.carlsson)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 3:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/are-the-julia-binaries-gpl-free/19993/7 "2019-01-23T15:56:13Z")

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> [@Julia v1.1.0 has been released](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-1-0-has-been-released/19911/20):
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> And MKL.jl is MIT-licensed. It probably should be more clear that it’s a wrapper for proprietary code, incompatible (for distribution purposes) with GPL/SuiteSparse.

This is a very specific discussion that is maybe not suited for the 1.1.0 announcement post. If you have taken it upon yourself to make sure that companies don’t accidentally break licenses you can open an issue at MKL.jl, but it might be something not worth worrying about. Companies handle these thing pretty ok in general.

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