[zeromq-dev] zeromq licensing forbidden at my company

Ivan Pechorin ivan.pechorin at gmail.com
Mon Apr 23 18:08:26 CEST 2012


2012/4/23 Aaron Watters <aaron.watters at gmail.com>

I just started a new job where I had hoped to use zeromq
> but I discovered that zeromq is listed on the internal "forbidden"
> list because of issues with LGPL.  There may be political ways
> around this as far as I know, but just to ask...
>

By the way, what are the issues exactly?

I used to think that LGPL (not GPL!) with static linking exception is safe
for use in closed-source applications, from legal point of view.
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