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

[Ted Ralphs]

These two issues came up on a COIN panel at the recent INFORMS meeting
and we are taking active steps to address them. Stay tuned!

Cheers,

Ted

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Haluk Akin <halukakin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>> --
>> For the one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that
>> it will be utterly fantastic. -- Arthur C. Clarke, 1962
>>
>
>
> 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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