[zeromq-dev] ZeroMQ MPL Licensing plans?

[Pieter Hintjens]

Sorry for the slow reply, we were busy in a hackathon the last few days.

The LGPL+static link exception should work with any license, since it
allows relicensing of the combined work.

We're slowing gathering steam to relicense the core library. It is a
non-trivial project and needs time and money to complete.

In the mean time we're recommending MPLv2 to other ZeroMQ projects.

-Pieter

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 6:53 PM, Arnaud Kapp <kapp.arno at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> You'd better wait for Peter to answer as he'd provide a more authoritative
> answer.
>
> As far as I know we're not even trying to move libzmq to MPLv2 because the
> codebase is rather old and it'd be hard to track down every contributor.
> New Zeromq-related projects (bindings, etc) are using MPL, and some related
> project have been moved to MPL: zmqpp for example -- however the number
> of contributor was around 20 people so it was much easier to contact
> everyone.
>
> Not sure if it helps, but we provide the "link exception" that many people
> using the LGPL also provide.
>
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 6:12 PM, Sam Ruby <rubys at apache.org> wrote:
>>
>> I'm not certain where to best ask this question.  Please let me know
>> if it would be better addressed elsewhere.
>>
>> At the Apache Software Foundation we have an incubating project (named
>> Toree[1]) that has a dependency on Zeromq.  LGPL is problematic for
>> us[2], probably for the same reasons that you are considering moving
>> to MPL[3].
>>
>> What is the status and plans of your move to MPLv2?
>>
>> - Sam Ruby
>>
>> [1] https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ToriiProposal
>> [2] http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html
>> [3] http://zeromq.org/area:licensing
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