[zeromq-dev] Licence

[Bjorn Reese]

On 2012-09-07 04:44, Pieter Hintjens wrote:

> "Note on use of the GPL: we use this license to cover the
> specification text itself, not implementations. You can license your
> own code under any license you wish. If you make derived versions of
> this specification, you must share them under the GPL. The goal of
> this is to prevent private extensions of our specifications."

Rather than using a license designed for software, you may consider
a license designed for documentation. For instance, both of these
fulfil the goal:

   http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html
   http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/