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

[Soeren Sonnenburg]

If I was you I would give up and take what is there. COIN OR people will
never re-license under a GPL compatible license like the Apache License,
Version 2.0.

In addition, now that openoffice is obsoleted by libreoffice it is not
really giving them a big incentive to do so.

Soeren

On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 13:26 -0700, 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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