Hi Niklas, On 11.06.2011 17:36, Niklas Nebel wrote: > Dependencies on LGPL libraries may soon become a problem. What would be the problem here?
[Just curious why it was o.k. in the past, but may be a problem "soon" ?] > One such library is lp_solve, which is the basis of the OpenOffice.org > Linear Solver in Calc. > > It would certainly be a nice twist of irony if the > "evil-grasping-Sun-solver" Again, not sure what you mean with "evil-grasping" here? Doesn't Oracle (Sun) hold the copyright and can issue a version with any license of their choice? > became exclusive to LibreOffice, but I'll go ahead and spoil the fun: > COIN-OR (www.coin-or.org) has a lot of OR code under the less-evil EPL > or CPL licenses. Among it: Clp for linear programming, Cbc for integer > conditions, and CoinMP, which wraps these in a single shared object > with a C interface. > > I created issue 118160 and attached a simple proof-of-concept patch to > use CoinMP instead of lp_solve. From some limited testing, this seems > to work very well. Some changes will still be needed for building and > packaging, and perhaps some tweaking of solver settings. But the patch > shows that replacing lp_solve is clearly a (pardon the pun) solvable > problem. Sounds promising, nevertheless. :) ---rony -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
