First, I'd like to congratulate Intel on the awesome initiatives to (1) make MKL freely available through the Community Licensing, (2) develop the super fast Intel Distribution for Python and (3) make it available through Continuum's conda.
There's only one thing that is really missing now: to provide a mkl-devel conda package so that we are able to build other packages that depend on MKL using conda-build locally or on the conda-forge infrastructure.
Continuum already have an internal private mkl-devel package which they use to build their version of numpy and other packages, but they are not able to publish it due to licensing restrictions (despite MKL having a free version already), please see:
https://github.com/ContinuumIO/anaconda-recipes/issues/50
and:
https://github.com/ContinuumIO/anaconda-issues/issues/888
Could Intel make this package available, or provide a way to make it available?
Thanks!