A very interesting topic (optimization) and the documentation does a good job at introducing it. I also like the facts that the author published under an open s

A very interesting topic (optimization) and the documentation does a good job at introducing it. I also like the facts that the author published under an open source license and that he is financed/employed by a company that does all the heavy lifting like accounting and marketing. Is there a reason why the author choses the Apache Software License over something similar like the LGPL? Some people here tend to think the author could have made a lot more money if he would have turned the software into a for profit business right from the start. This may be so but, aside from beeing a lot more work in non-programming areas, this would probably not have generated the other effects that occurred: the author learned a lot more by participating in the programming community and also created a valuable relationship with a company. Both these effects open up new ideas and possibilities, be it intellectually or in terms of business opportunities.