[Coin-discuss] Any updates on COIN-OR GPL compatible licensing?

[Soeren Sonnenburg]

On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 11:26 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> Soeren-
> 
> Sorry I haven't been able to respond sooner, but as you've seen from
> Robin's post to coin-discuss, there has been some movement afoot on the
> license front.  Whether that movement represents progress on the
> compatibility/dual-licensing issues isn't yet clear, but there wasn't
> much that we were in a position to do once this process started.
> 
> Now that this part is complete, we will be looking at this and related
> issue again.

Unfortunately, it looks like EPL is still a GPL incompatible license. So
it seems it does not help in the case of coinor...

:(

Soeren

> On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 14:31 +0200, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > one year ago, I was asking the question if there is a chance to see
> > coinor used in GPL licensed projects (like R, octave, shogun...)
> > 
> > I haven't heard of any updates about this since June 2008, where Matthew
> > Saltzman (CC'ed) stated
> > 
> > "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."
> > 
> > So is there anything to report by now or even a decision in sight?
> > 
> > Soeren.
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