[Coin-discuss] Would it be possible to relicense parts of COIN-OR under an Apache License?

[Lou Hafer]

Pedro,

[ ... migration of OpenOffice from Sun/Oracle to Apache ... ]

	Yeah, been reading about this. Speculation in the tech press is that 
there's a fair bit of code that has incompatible licensing. Seemed to me 
that the best thing would be for Apache to give OpenOffice back to 
LibreOffice. Certainly, the two groups need to get back together. For 
good or ill, not my decision to make.

[ ... relicense CoinMP and underlying code from EPL to Apache ... ]

	A subject that enthralls us all, having just spent the better part of a 
year negotiating the relatively simple business of converting from CPL 
to EPL. I've put it on the agenda for the next SLB meeting. With the 
best of intentions, in the short term, I'd plan on working with EPL.

							Lou


On 10/02/2011 01:26 PM, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
> Hello;
>
> I have recently become interested in the migration of OpenOffice
> from SUN/Oracle to an Apache Project: a process that has also
> been backed up by IBM, that will be contributing it's own
> derivative Lotus Symphony to the Project.
>
> As part of the IP cleanup that OpenOffice has to do, we will
> likely remove the LGPL'd solver (lp_solve) for coinmp(CPL),
> which includes CPL and CGL (both EPL).
>
> The Apache Software Foundation has some rather strict rules
> concerning the licenses we are allowed to include:
>
> http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html
>
> Both CLP and EPL are considered Category B, which is better
> that LGPL (Category X), so we can use them and redistribute
> them as binaries.
>
> This is all good, and I think using the COIN-LP software in
> a massively distributed product like Apache OpenOffice will
> be awesome, however we could do a much wider distribution
> and promotion if it were available under an Apache License:
>
> http://apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
>
> This license is very popular among developers, it's
> commercial-friendly and is recommended by the FSF as
> it is compatible with the GPL3.
>
> Just thought I'd drop a line and let you guys discuss it :).
>
> best regards,
>
> Pedro.
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