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

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 19:08 +0200, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> 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...

No, but there is a new license steward.  So as far as future
developments in this area, we'd now have to raise the question with the
Eclipse Foundation rather than with IBM.

Dual licensing is a different issue, as it involves the owners of the
various pieces of code.


> 
> :(
> 
> 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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                Matthew Saltzman

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