[Coin-discuss] updates on COIN-OR licencing...

[Soeren Sonnenburg]

On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 09:26 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 12:41 +0000, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> [...]
> > This makes it look like the easiest way would be to to dual license the
> > project.
> > 
> > Not sure if there was a discussion/decision at the COIN OR board
> > meeting... Maybe someone more into this could give an update on this?
> 
> We have an intellectual property lawyer with a specialization in open
> source working on our project acceptance criteria and other intellectual
> property issues.  I expect we will discuss this issue with him as part
> of that work.
> 
> We would also need to clear the dual licensing arrangement with IBM and
> other contributors.  The challenges associated with that process have
> been detailed in other threads on this topic on this list.
> 
> The state of the board discussion is that we'd like to have input from
> our lawyer before we undertake the significant effort of getting
> contributor approval for dual licensing.  We'll post updates when we
> have something to report.

Thanks for the update!
Soeren
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