[Cbc] CBC MIP wrapper for glpsol (i.e. GLPK Solver)

[Miles Lubin]

Aren't there are serious legal issues with this? Cbc is licensed under EPL,
while GLPK is GPL, and according to wikipedia (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_Public_License):

The EPL 1.0 is not compatible with the GPL, and a work created by combining
a work licensed under the GPL with a work licensed under the EPL cannot be
lawfully distributed.

There's nothing preventing you from writing this wrapper for your own
purposes and sharing it with others, but at least from my limited
understanding of the licences, this wrapper could not be officially
distributed with cbc.

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 5:14 PM, Noli Sicad <nsicad at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> CBC MIP solver is quicker and can solve difficult MIP problem compare
> to current GLPK MIP solver.
>
> GLPK/MathProg has very good data management, pre and post processing
> (i.e. input and output to various formats (database, CVS, etc.), far
> better than AMPL.
>
> CBC solver has "half" support for MathProg, only input at the moment.
>
> I think it would be better if we would adapt this approach:
>
> GLPK -> CBC MIP-> GLPK  wrapper which uses GLPK to parse a MathProg
> model with data files, generates mps file, solve it with CBC, and uses
> the post solve features of GLPK/MathProg.
>
> With CBC solver can be user's friendly and popular :-).
>
> Gurobi and Cplex have these wrappers for glpsol. I am attaching these
> 2 files (i.e. wrapper_gurobi.c and 3party_cplex_wrapper.c.
>
> John and Ted,
>
> What do you think about this approach of having support for CBC in
> glpsol? Is the doable.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards, Noli
>
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