Re: help in modifying __qp__.cc

[Sergei Steshenko]

--- On Thu, 11/6/08, Søren Hauberg <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: Søren Hauberg <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: help in modifying __qp__.cc
> To: "Przemek Klosowski" <address@hidden>
> Cc: "help-octave" <address@hidden>
> Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 7:09 AM
> tor, 06 11 2008 kl. 10:04 -0500, skrev Przemek Klosowski:
> > 1) why is COIN-OR better---I ask in full ignorance as
> I only learned enough  LP
> >    to help my friend Alan to use glpk() to find the
> right concentration
> >    of salts for his beer brewing project.
> 
> I've been told by friends and colleagues that work with
> LP problems that
> COIN handles much larger problems than GLPK. I'm no
> expert, so I don't
> _know_ this, but smart people with experience have told me,
> so I trust
> it to be so. 
> 
> > 2) their license is CPL, which is an approved by OSI.
> Why do you believe it's
> >    silly---is there something that makes it
> incompatible/unlinkable with GPL?
> 
> Check the Free Software Foundation's webpage:
> http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/index_html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses
> (search for Common Public License Version 1.0). It says:
> 
>   "This is a free software license. Unfortunately, it
> has a choice of
> law clause which makes it incompatible with the GNU
> GPL."
> 
> Since GPL is _the_ most used license, I think it's fair
> to call CPL
> "silly" since this incompatibility is almost
> certainly by design.
> 
> Søren
> 

It really depends on the point of view - one might say it's silly to use
GPL.

In practical terms, if one builds from sources and does _not_ redistribute
the binary, the license doesn't matter - GPL explicitly allows this, as
clearly is stated in the GPL FAQ.

Regards,
  Sergei.