[zeromq-dev] Relicensing completion and feature removal, need clean-room reimplementations of zmq_proxy_steerable() and ZMQ_RECONNECT_IVL_MAX

[Luca Boccassi]

Hi,

It's mentioned in the issue:

Laurent Alebarde <l.alebarde at free.fr>
https://github.com/lalebarde

On Mon, 5 Jun 2023 at 14:49, Francesco <francesco.montorsi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Luca,
> sorry but can you list the references to the 3 authors that did not re-license these 3 features?
> In particular the one about zmq_proxy_steerable()... I remember I did provide some patches and also one other colleague did... if he was the author of that feature I can surely reach out to him...
>
> Thanks,
> Francesco
>
>
> Il giorno lun 5 giu 2023 alle ore 13:49 Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org> ha scritto:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> As you might or might not be aware, we have been working hard for years
>> to complete the libzmq relicensing effort that Pieter started long ago,
>> from LGPL3+exceptions to standard MPL2:
>>
>> https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/issues/2376
>>
>> After a lot of work, we are down to only 3 grants missing, covering the
>> following:
>>
>> - tweetnacl integration as alternative to libsodium (relicensing
>> NACKed)
>> - zmq_proxy_steerable() (no answer)
>> - ZMQ_RECONNECT_IVL_MAX (no answer)
>>
>> We have been waiting for years, with many requests without responses
>> for the latter two, and it doesn't make sense to wait anymore.
>>
>> So with this PR the above functionality will simply be removed:
>>
>> https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/pull/4554
>>
>> I will merge it later today.
>>
>> Tweetnacl is really not a problem, it was always intended as a local-
>> only thing to facilitate zmq_curve development, which is long done. The
>> only supported production encryption implementation is libsodium, which
>> is available everywhere, so I do not intend to put tweetnacl
>> integration back. If anybody was using curve+tweetnacl in a production
>> setting, they were doing something _very_ wrong and need to stop asap
>> anyway. It's a footgun and it's best to be rid of it.
>>
>> The other two are more problematic, as they are public APIs. The PR
>> changes them to be empty stubs that return EOPNOTSUPP (so that ABI
>> doesn't change). But I will make at least an attempt to get a
>> reimplementation so:
>>
>> If you are able to, and you have NEVER LOOKED AT THE PREVIOUS
>> IMPLEMENTATIONS (I will require you to state this explicitly in the
>> commit messages), please consider helping out and reimplementing these
>> two APIs, based solely on the public documentation:
>>
>> http://api.zeromq.org/4-3:zmq-proxy-steerable
>> http://api.zeromq.org/4-3:zmq-setsockopt#:~:text=connection%2Doriented%20transports-,ZMQ_RECONNECT_IVL_MAX,-%3A%20Set%20maximum%20reconnection
>>
>> I cannot stress this enough, it must be a clean-room reimplementation
>> so no prior knowledge of the previous implementation details nor
>> looking at the previos implementation is allowed (hence why I cannot do
>> it myself).
>>
>> If you are able to help, please speak up. These are not difficult to
>> add, especially the socket option should be very straightforward. I
>> will of course be able to review and provide guidance.
>>
>> After merging the above PR I will complete the relicensing shortly
>> after, taking advantage of the switch to also use the standard SPDX
>> format in source files. The relicense grants will be moved to:
>> https://github.com/rlenferink/libzmq-relicense
>> for archival.
>>
>> --
>> Kind regards,
>> Luca Boccassi
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