[Clp] Licensing Question

[Miles Lubin]

Hi Babak,

Clp is licensed under the Eclipse Public License, which is unfortunately
incompatible with the GPL. See these two FAQ entries:
https://www.eclipse.org/legal/eplfaq.php#USEINANOTHER
https://www.eclipse.org/legal/eplfaq.php#GPLCOMPATIBLE

If you would like to distribute Clp along with your code, it would have to
be dual licensed. Another option, which is common practice although I
cannot comment on if it's technically compliant with the license, is to not
distribute Clp along with the code, but instead allow users to download it
on their own if they would prefer to use it over the solver which you are
currently using.

Best,
Miles


On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Babak Moazzez <bmoazzez at ucdavis.edu>
wrote:

> We have a GNU licensed software that uses an LP solver inside. We want to
> replace this solver with CLP. Can we still license the software under GNU?
> or should we go with dual licensing?
>
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> Babak Moazzez
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