Re: [Help-glpk] Command-line and GPL

[Andrew Makhorin]

> I would like to use the GLPK by calling the glpsol command from a
> Java program (through system call) that has to solve a specific MIP
> problem. This program could build a MathProg file on-the-fly, invoke
> glpsol with its arguments and then get the solution from the output
> file. Therefore, it would be neither statically nor dynamically
> linked to the GLPK.

Glpsol is linked to the glpk library, so your program is linked to it
indirectly.

> My question is: am I forced to release this program under the GPL?
> I've already read
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation but it
> didn't help.

Why do not implement your program under GPL? It would be in the spirit
of GNU software.