[zeromq-dev] [ANN] zmq.rs - native stack of ØMQ in Rust

[Fantix King]

Ah I see. I will keep MPLv2 :) Thank you!

(see also discussions here:
https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2014-July/010660.html )

Fantix

On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Pieter Hintjens <ph at imatix.com> wrote:

> Fantix,
>
> I'd recommend keeping the MPLv2 license, since otherwise you cannot
> merge pull requests without further clearance.
>
> The problem is that a fork of an MIT-licensed repository will not
> necessarily be MIT licensed. It's trivial to add code and relicense
> the lot under a different license. Then, when you get a pull request
> you have to explicitly check or ask that the patch be licensed
> properly. It's significant work and if you don't do it, your entire
> project may end up with an inconsistent, even unusable license.
>
> Sticking to MPLv2 (or LGPL as for libzmq) avoids that work and
> eliminates the risk. By definition a pull request is safe to merge.
>
> This aspect is so important that C4 makes it mandatory. If you use an
> MIT license, you cannot be compliant with C4.
>
> There is also the argument that a share-alike license increases the
> incentive to send patches back. I've made MIT licensed libraries that
> were widely used and yet got very few patches.
>
> -Pieter
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Fantix King <fantix.king at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Thanks a lot! I'll take a look at CZMQ and libzmtp.
> >
> > btw I may change the license to MIT :)
> >
> >
> > BR,
> > Fantix
> > --
> > http://about.me/fantix
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Pieter Hintjens <ph at imatix.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Very nice. The only comment I'd make is that the libzmq API is a
> >> little clunky and you might look at the CZMQ zsock API as a model. The
> >> code classes in CZMQ are zsock, zactor, and perhaps zbeacon and zmsg.
> >> There's also an interesting API in libzmtp, which expresses separate
> >> socket types as separate classes.
> >>
> >> -Pieter
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 8:16 AM, Fantix King <fantix.king at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > Here is zmq.rs, a native implementation of ØMQ in the Rust
> programming
> >> > language in MPLv2. I've just got a very ugly prototype running till
> now,
> >> > and
> >> > I'm expecting to hear more comments on anything.
> >> >
> >> > https://github.com/zeromq/zmq.rs
> >> >
> >> > For who wants to know more about Rust, it is a systems programming
> >> > language
> >> > from Mozilla, that runs blazingly fast, prevents almost all crashes,
> and
> >> > eliminates data races (according to http://www.rust-lang.org/).
> >> > Guaranteed
> >> > memory safety and concurrency without data races is what I liked it
> >> > most.
> >> >
> >> > Back to the project, I did a few iterations and got what it is now, in
> >> > the
> >> > hope that more discussion can be raised over some actual code to talk
> >> > about.
> >> > zmq.rs currently has REQ and REP, can `send` and `recv` in ZMTP 2.0.
> I
> >> > also
> >> > blogged a bit about the design here (more to come):
> >> >
> >> > http://blog.segmentfault.com/fantix/1190000000593564
> >> >
> >> > You are more than welcome to:
> >> >  * comment on the design
> >> >  * suggest different solution
> >> >  * complain about whatever you don't like
> >> >  * open issues on github
> >> >  * send me PRs and code reviews
> >> >  * join me developing and maintaining it
> >> >  * or even star it on github ;)
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > BR,
> >> > Fantix
> >> > --
> >> > http://about.me/fantix
> >> >
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