Sorry, misread the revision I was looking at. The intent to move to MPL was done on March 22 2014, 2 years ago this month, not December 2013.
John On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 6:41 PM John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org> wrote: > I have some reservations with what you're proposing, and would like you to > consult w/ legal-discuss on this first. > > There's a difference between what Mynewt did and what you're proposing. > Specifically, this was a transitive dependency that they relied upon > indirectly, so its more of a call out for the library that was leveraging > it. They also intended to replace the library. > > In your case, you're directly tied to a presently LGPL'd library. You > have no intentions (from what I can see) of moving off of the library. > > I'm also doubting their long term goals of moving to MPL. If you look at > [1], you'll see that the page hasn't been updated since October 2014. In > addition, looking at the pages revision history (the beauty of wikis), the > intent to move to MPL was published in December 2013, making the statement > over 2 years old. > > I think while this might be OK for an initial incubator release, the > project needs to weigh very heavily if it wants to continue to leverage > ZeroMQ or not going forward. > > [1]: http://zeromq.org/area:licensing > > > On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 5:06 PM Gino Bustelo <g...@bustelos.com> wrote: > >> Wanted to give folks an update on our progress with dealing with JeroMQ, >> an >> LGPL package that enables us to communicate via 0MQ. The 0MQ community is >> very aware of the issues with LGPL (LGPLv3 + static link exception) and it >> is their intention to try to move projects to MPL v2. This is not an easy >> task depending on the age and size of the projects. >> >> Apache Toree's API access point is through the 0MQ transport layer (using >> JeroMQ) and that is how Apache Toree connects out-of-the-box with Jupyter, >> a very common way of consuming Apache Toree that is already in production. >> >> At this point, the JeroMQ project is still released under LGPL, but our >> team initiated communications in mid-February with members of the JeroMQ >> community to begin their transition to MPL v2 ( >> https://github.com/zeromq/jeromq/issues/326). The JeroMQ community >> reacted >> very positively and quickly began the process of collecting votes from >> their committers (https://github.com/zeromq/jeromq/issues/327). After 15 >> days, the current tally stands at 26 out of 32 committers have agreed to >> switch license. >> >> Apache Toree has a JIRA (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TOREE-262) >> where we keep all the relevant links and update with the latest >> information. As that process is underway, we will move forward with plans >> to release a 0.1.0 version of Apache Toree based on the precedence set by >> Apache Mynewt ( >> >> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201602.mbox/%3C5F118AA0-4ADA-403B-A6EB-4A85F0B30651%40me.com%3E >> ). >> >> Thanks, >> Gino >> >
