[Coin-discuss] Open-source Modeling Languages

[Sebastian Nowozin]

Hello Andrew, it is nice to see you taking part of the discussion,


On Nov 21, 2007 11:16 AM, Andrew Makhorin <mao at gnu.org> wrote:

> > A third issue is licensing.  Since building an application that uses
> > OS practically requires linking with OS libraries, you have to make
> > sure that the CPL used by OS is compatible with the library that you
> > use for your software.  Unfortunately, I don't think that this is true
> > for the GPL.

> It is known that the CPL is incompatible with GPLv2. However, it is
> possible that the CPL is compatible with GPL version 3 (like the Apache
> 2.0 license which is incompatible with GPLv2 but compatible with GPLv3).

Does that mean, from a license point of view GLPK could provide
support for OS by linking against the CPL-licensed OS library to
write/read OSiL/OSrL files and otherwise behave as normal?

Thanks,
Sebastian