The coinclp package is licensed under the Eclipse Public License, as recorded in the License field of DESCRIPTION. coinclp links against COIN-OR Clp, which is a separate work distributed under the Eclipse Public License 2.0 by the COIN-OR Foundation and contributors . Clp is not included in this package and must be installed on the system. The compatibility layer in R/compat-clpAPI.R reproduces the function names and argument names of the clpAPI package by Gabriel Gelius-Dietrich, which was distributed under the GNU General Public License version 3, so that code written against clpAPI keeps working. No code from clpAPI is used; the implementation here is independent.