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

[Pedro F. Giffuni]

Hi Lou;

--- On Tue, 10/4/11, Lou Hafer <lou at cs.sfu.ca> wrote:
...
> 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.

Just speculation no doubt ... but "give back" what? LibreOffice
already has the code under the license they want. The Apache
effort will just add more (hopefully cleaner) code and will make
it license compatible with LibreOffice.

> Certainly, the two groups need to get back together. For
> good or ill, not my decision to make.
>

And pretty much off topic here. I don't mean to be rude, but
I do think people here want to discuss COIN and it's uses and
not the autoinflicted health of the OpenOffice/LibreOffice
community ;-).

> [ ... 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.
>

For Apache both EPL and CPL classify under the same category
so we can (and will) use it but we could do better if the
license were a little less restricted. IBM has been very
proactive from the start in the OOo move to Apache so maybe
there will be some support for this in the future.

cheers,

Pedro.