[Coin-discuss] New foundation legal policies released for comment

[Soeren Sonnenburg]

On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 09:41 -0400, Ted Ralphs wrote:
> The COIN-OR Foundation's Strategic Leadership Board is pleased to
> announce the release of new document outlining a proposed change in
> legal policy. This document is now available for public comment here:
> 
> http://www.coin-or.org/legal.html
> 
> The new policy is aimed at streamlining project acceptance procedures
> and ensuring the repository remains as open as possible while
> maintaining respect for intellectual property laws and transparency
> with regard to the legal pedigree of hosted codes. We would appreciate
> any feedback we can get from the user community regarding how this
> change in policy might affect your ability to use or contribute to the
> growing collection of software in COIN. I hope to see many of you in
> San Diego!

What I am missing is a clause suggesting to dual license under a GPL
compatible license.

From the usage statistics in debian I see that all of the coinor
packages together are not nearly used as much as glpk or lpsolve alone.

Soeren
-- 
For the one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it
will be utterly fantastic. -- Arthur C. Clarke, 1962
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