+1

> On Mar 6, 2016, at 6:58 PM, Gino Bustelo <lbust...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> @john The 0mq ecosystem is made up of many projects of different sizes and 
> maturity. In the case of JeroMQ, the committers are showing an overwhelming 
> momentum to transition to MPL. I don't see any reason for us to consider any 
> other alternative at this juncture. 
> 
> Gino B.
> 
>> On Mar 5, 2016, at 11:42 PM, Henri Yandell <bay...@apache.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Having chatted around the 0mq community in the past; I've confidence in
>> their desire to move to MPL; and 26/32 committers is a great step forward.
>> You raise a good reservation though John - if you remove the blocker on the
>> usage side, it's easy for the licensing to remain as is.
>> 
>> 
>> I'm +1 for releasing, with a prominent note of the LGPL dependency (along
>> with a note of the resolution plan). It might be that the Toree committers
>> may be motivated to rewrite code over at 0mq if there ends up being any
>> committers who are unavailable or unwilling to relicense.
>> 
>> Hen
>> 
>>> On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 3:45 PM, John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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
>>> 
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