[dev] Re: Replacing LGPL libraries: Use of lp_solve for Calc's linear solver
On 11.06.2011 17:55, Niklas Nebel wrote: On 11.06.2011 17:43, rony wrote: 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 ?] http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html Ah, I see! Thanks. ---rony -- - To unsubscribe send email to dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[dev] Re: Replacing LGPL libraries: Use of lp_solve for Calc's linear solver
Hi Ariel, On 11.06.2011 20:26, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: Hello rony, On Saturday 11 June 2011, 12:43, rony wrote: 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? Oh, haven't you been following the OOo Apache Incubator Proposal? http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenOfficeProposal http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201106.mbox/thread (almost 1000 mails) The thing is that Apache only releases code under the AL. thank you very much, especially for the links ! [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? http://osdir.com/ml/gnome.ximian.openoffice/2008-04/msg00073.html Ah, I see! :) Again, thank you *very* much for the link! ---rony -- - To unsubscribe send email to dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[dev] Re: Replacing LGPL libraries: Use of lp_solve for Calc's linear solver
Am 11.06.2011 20:26, schrieb Ariel Constenla-Haile: Hello rony, On Saturday 11 June 2011, 12:43, rony wrote: [...] [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? http://osdir.com/ml/gnome.ximian.openoffice/2008-04/msg00073.html It is called slapping the cow while drinking her milk :) -- - To unsubscribe send email to dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[dev] Re: Replacing LGPL libraries: Use of lp_solve for Calc's linear solver
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
[dev] Re: Replacing LGPL libraries: Use of lp_solve for Calc's linear solver
On 11.06.2011 17:43, rony wrote: 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 ?] http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html 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? It was called such by someone else, which is part of the irony of it. Niklas -- - To unsubscribe send email to dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[dev] Re: Replacing LGPL libraries: Use of lp_solve for Calc's linear solver
Hello rony, On Saturday 11 June 2011, 12:43, rony wrote: 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? Oh, haven't you been following the OOo Apache Incubator Proposal? http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenOfficeProposal http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201106.mbox/thread (almost 1000 mails) The thing is that Apache only releases code under the AL. [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? http://osdir.com/ml/gnome.ximian.openoffice/2008-04/msg00073.html Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
