[Coin-discuss] Packaging CLP for debian.

[Soeren Sonnenburg]

On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 09:43 -0400, John J Forrest wrote:
> Soeren,

Hi John,

thanks for replying.

> I am basically the author of Clp.

So your are the sole author and IBM is the copyright holder?

> I personally have no problem with changing header files once all legal
> issues are sorted out.

I am not sure I understand correctly. Which legal issues? I thought Clp
is currently wholly under the CPL? Why not then state it in each of the
header files instead of all rights reserved?

> John Forrest

What about the (minor) patches?
Soeren.
                                                                                                               
>   From:       Soeren Sonnenburg <Soeren.Sonnenburg at first.fraunhofer.de>                                             
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>   To:         "coin-discuss\@list\.coin-or\.org" <coin-discuss at list.coin-or.org>                                    
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>   Cc:         John J Forrest/Watson/IBM at IBMUS                                                                       
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>   Date:       06/09/2008 09:20 AM                                                                                   
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>   Subject:    Packaging CLP for debian.                                                                             
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> Dear John et al.,
> 
> I am having some minor problems getting clp into debian. One issue is
> that the header files in clp most of the time say
> 
> // Copyright (C) 2002, International Business Machines
> // Corporation and others.  All Rights Reserved.
> 
> even though the LICENSE in the top level directory says look at the
> LICENSE file in the subdirs which says the files are CLP.
> 
> Would it be possible to change the src code files to have e.g.
> 
> // Copyright (C) 2002, International Business Machines
> // Corporation and others. This program is free software and
> // licensed under the Common Public License 1.0, cf. LICENSE
> // for the full text of the license.
> 
> Then I am also slightly confused, is IBM the sole copyright holder of
> CLP and you the main author or were there other contributors.
> 
> Obviously for CoinUtils there are a number of other authors (as the
> AUTHORS file states) but who of them except obviously Francois Margot
> have the copyright?
> 
> Otherwise, more code related, it would be nice to enable doxygen dotty
> support by default and also to disable -rpath maybe even in the clp
> tree. I will otherwise maintain patches for debian to do so. (patches
> are attached).
> 
> Thanks,
> Soeren.
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