Matt,

Am 09.03.2013 um 13:22 schrieb Matt Shaver:

> The Official Response:
> 
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> On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 2:02 AM, Matt Shaver <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> "I have asked the ZeroMQ steward, Pieter Hintjens, wrt to
>> compatibility of a GPL2only project and ZMQ, and his answer was a
>> straight 'no'. Maybe I didnt ask the right question, this is for sure
>> worthwhile following up with Pieter in more detail."  
> 
> I vaguely remember the question, it was from Michael Haberler on IRC,
> but I seem to remember there was more to it than just calling the
> library, and I don't have the IRC logs to check.
> 
> To be clear: you can use libzmq (and any other 0MQ project with the
> same license) in a GPLv2 project, both as a dynamic library, and in a
> static link. If you make patches, you need to publish them, as usual.
> There's no reason there would be any restrictions for GPLv2 projects
> since the license is designed to work with all application licenses
> including commercial closed source.
> 
> If you need any help when it comes to using 0MQ, CZMQ, Zyre, etc. let
> me know.
> 
> -Pieter

I've read this several times, and it still reads as a huge relief to me - on 
the biggest single concern I had

Thanks a million for following up on this and resolving the issue by drilling 
once more.

- Michael


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> On Fri, 8 Mar 2013 20:02:40 -0500
> Matt Shaver <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Some of the programmers of the linuxcnc project
>> (http://www.linuxcnc.org) are interested in replacing our current
>> messaging system, CMS/NML
>> (http://www.isd.mel.nist.gov/projects/rcslib/) with zeromq.
>> 
>> The programmers are very enthused about this, but questions have
>> arisen regarding the license compatibility between your LGPLv3
>> licensing, and our "GPLv2 only" (plus some Public Domain) licensing.
>> 
>> Your licensing page (http://www.zeromq.org/area:licensing) and FAQ
>> page (http://www.zeromq.org/area:faq#toc0) lead me to believe that the
>> use of zeromq by our project would be allowable. However, one of our
>> people contacted one of your people, and he (our guy) says:
>> 
>> "I have asked the ZeroMQ steward, Pieter Hintjens, wrt to
>> compatibility of a GPL2only project and ZMQ, and his answer was a
>> straight 'no'. Maybe I didnt ask the right question, this is for sure
>> worthwhile following up with Pieter in more detail."
>> 
>> To be perfectly clear, we _do not_ intend to derive or create a new
>> messaging system by combining zeromq code with our code, we only wish
>> to use zeromq as a replacement for our current message passing
>> mechanism. Should we make any bug fixes, or add a new feature to
>> zeromq, we would contribute them back upstream under the terms of
>> your LGPLv3 licensing.
>> 
>> So, are we allowed to use zeromq in this way?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Matt Shaver
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