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

[Haluk Akin]

Top two on my list would be:
-COIN-OR is an excellent library but when it comes to entry level
documentation it needs more work. Lpsolve, provides good resources for
newcomers.
-COIN-OR doesn't directly support Java. Lpsolve provides java libraries.


Haluk


-----Original Message-----
From: Soeren Sonnenburg [mailto:sonne at debian.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 7:23 AM
To: Haluk Akin
Cc: coin-discuss at list.coin-or.org
Subject: RE: [Coin-discuss] New foundation legal policies released for
comment

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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> 


Soeren
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