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

[Haluk Akin]

Licensing issues would probably affect usage stats. 
However, I think there are other issues which have a bigger effect on
coin-or's adoption rate.

Haluk



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Sonnenburg
Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 10:24 AM
To: Ted Ralphs
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Subject: Re: [Coin-discuss] New foundation legal policies released for
comment

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
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