[Coin-discuss] SCIP: an open-source Constraint Mixed Integer Programming Solver (Tobias Achterberg)

[Ted Ralphs]

COIN-OR hosts only software distributed under certified open source
licenses (see http://www.opensource.org). One of the requirements for a
license to be certified open source is that it not discriminate by field
of endeavor, i.e., it cannot restrict commercial use differently than
non-commercial use. IPOPT is distributed under the Common Public License
(CPL), which is a certified open source license satisfying this
requirement. SCIPs license, however, does not satisfy this requirement
and cannot be certified open source. Hope this helps!

Cheers,

Ted

Carl Wilburn wrote:
> The availability of SCIP sounds similar to IPOPT.
> IPOPT  is available free of charge for
> academic/non-commercial use. It does, however, make
> use of subroutines from the HSL which are again, free
> for academic/non-commercial use but require a fee for
> commercial use. 
> 
> Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but SCIP could be
> made available thru COIN in a similar fashion.


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