[zeromq-dev] iMatix copyrights in ZeroMQ code base

Ewen McNeill zeromq at ewen.mcneill.gen.nz
Sat Apr 23 03:39:19 CEST 2016


Hi Pieter,

[On list;

On 23/04/16 4:31, Pieter Hintjens wrote:
> iMatix Corporation sprl, with address at 13-15 rue des Ateliers, 1080
> Brussels Belgium, hereby grants an irrevocable, global, and fully
> paid-up license on all its copyrights that exist in the libzmq code
> base, and any other projects under the ZeroMQ organization on GitHub,
> under the Mozilla Public License version 2.

With my "time traveller from the future" hat on:
- please commit this statement into at least one of the ZeroMQ git 
archives (eg, https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq)

- ZeroMQ was originally developed by FastMQ, which iMatix acquired 
(http://lists.zeromq.org/pipermail/zeromq-dev/2009-November/001353.html; 
http://imatix.wikidot.com/press:fastmq-acquisition)

- can you say something about whether that acquisition included transfer 
of all FastMQ copyrights to iMatix, and thus whether the FastMQ 
originated code/copyright is covered by this MPLv2 license grant; or 
whether FastMQ remained a separate subsidiary of iMatix and the 
copyrights remained separate[0]; and

- can you say something about your understanding of what proportion of 
the copyright FastMQ owned, at the time of the acquisition by iMatix 
(2009-11-01), versus what proportion of the copyright was owned 
individually by developers who might have been working for/with FastMQ.

Thanks,

Ewen

[0] The press release says FastMQ became "a division of iMatix 
Corporation" which implies separate, but the copyright strings in the 
files got updated about 2 months later:

https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/commit/4f6baf4dde627656b63cc4e2acdb78a8577ba640



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