On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Andrew Makhorin <[email protected]> wrote: > From scratch. I used the reference manual for cplex 9.0 publicly > available on their internet site (IIRC, it was in 2004 or 2005, before > IBM acquired this package) as well as some materials available on a > public cplex forum. The file examples/cplex/cplex.h contains only > function declarations; it does not contain any comments (which otherwise > might be considered as part of the manual), so I hope it does not > violate any copyrights, trade secrets, and patents. The interface module > to glpk included in examples/cplex is even not a clean room design, > because it is related in no way to the original cplex code.
Very neat. The good news is that it seems that this kind of information is still publicly available [1]. On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 9:48 PM, glpk xypron <[email protected]> wrote: > whether API definitions are copyrightable has been subject to legal disputes. I am a single developper versus a large corporation, and I can't afford a lawyer. I'd rather not taking any risk here :) [1]: http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/cosinfoc/v12r3/topic/ilog.odms.cplex.help/html/refcallablelibrary/html/overview.html _______________________________________________ Help-glpk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-glpk
