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

[Soeren Sonnenburg]

On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 00:54 +0300, Haluk Akin wrote:
> 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.

Aramian, me and others took care of binary coin-or packages to be
included in the most widespread linux distributions. So which other
issues?

Soeren

> -----Original Message-----
> From: coin-discuss-bounces at list.coin-or.org
> [mailto:coin-discuss-bounces at list.coin-or.org] On Behalf Of Soeren
> Sonnenburg
> Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 10:24 AM
> To: Ted Ralphs
> Cc: Discussions about open source software for Operations Research
> 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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> For the one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it will
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> 


Soeren
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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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