Re: [Emc-developers] License Compatibility Question

2013-03-09 Thread Matt Shaver
The Official Response: On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 2:02 AM, Matt Shaver m...@mattshaver.com 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'.

Re: [Emc-developers] License Compatibility Question

2013-03-09 Thread Michael Haberler
Matt, Am 09.03.2013 um 13:22 schrieb Matt Shaver: The Official Response: On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 2:02 AM, Matt Shaver m...@mattshaver.com wrote: I have asked the ZeroMQ steward, Pieter Hintjens, wrt to compatibility of a

Re: [Emc-developers] License Compatibility Question

2013-03-09 Thread Matt Shaver
On Sat, 9 Mar 2013 08:06:28 +0100 Pieter Hintjens p...@imatix.com wrote: 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

Re: [Emc-developers] Feasibility of license change to GPLv2+

2013-03-09 Thread Matt Shaver
On Sat, 09 Mar 2013 01:19:31 -0500 John Kasunich jmkasun...@fastmail.fm wrote: If at any point a chunk of code was public domain, it seems to me that the authors as of that point in time gave up all rights to it, including the right to object to re-licensing. I would say we only need to

Re: [Emc-developers] Feasibility of license change to GPLv2+

2013-03-09 Thread Chris Radek
On Sat, Mar 09, 2013 at 06:23:04PM -0500, Matt Shaver wrote: At some point, Fred added the GPLv2 and other rights phrase to some or all of the files (I'll go back and research this fully). He told me (on the phone I guess, I can't find an e-mail) that other rights meant also it's Public

Re: [Emc-developers] License Compatibility Question

2013-03-09 Thread John Morris
On 03/09/2013 06:22 AM, Matt Shaver wrote: On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 2:02 AM, Matt Shaver m...@mattshaver.com wrote: 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

Re: [Emc-developers] License Compatibility Question

2013-03-09 Thread John Morris
On 03/09/2013 10:26 PM, John Morris wrote: On 03/09/2013 06:22 AM, Matt Shaver wrote: On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 2:02 AM, Matt Shaver m...@mattshaver.com wrote: 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

Re: [Emc-developers] License Compatibility Question

2013-03-09 Thread EBo
On Mar 9 2013 9:26 PM, John Morris wrote: On 03/09/2013 06:22 AM, Matt Shaver wrote: On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 2:02 AM, Matt Shaver m...@mattshaver.com wrote: 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