Re: [Help-glpk] GLPK GUROBI wrapper

[Andrew Makhorin]

On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 20:30 +0100, glpk xypron wrote:
> Hello Matteo,
> 
> running your code would violate the license of GLPK because Gurobi
> is not licensed under a license compatible to the Gnu Public License.
> 
> Please, observe that Andrew chose to publish GLPK under GPL and
> not LGPL.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Xypron
> 

It depends on how Gurobi (which is highly proprietary software) is used
within the wrapper assuming that the wrapper itself is distributed under
the GNU GPL or a compatible license. I think that in this case Gurobi
can be considered as a plug-in, so the following answers the question:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLAndPlugins .