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FrePPLe aims at building a lightweight open source framework for modeling and solving production planning problems.
FrePPLe is the first open source production planning toolkit for your day-to-day
production planning problems.
For the developer community, the project is also trying to establish a
common ground framework for planning applications. Rather than rebuilding the
basic foundation from scratch over and over again, developers can now leverage
a proven framework to extend with their own extension modules.
New workflows and functionality can now be built much quicker and easier.
The word "free" in the project name refers to liberty, not price. Think of "freedom of speech" rather than "free beer": see the free software definition at http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html.