That's a fair point about them trying to circumvent the original intent of the zeromq authors for an LGPL product. I agree with you now you have pointed that out.
There is a special exception on the LGPL license for the Java driver which I think covers this kind of case: https://github.com/zeromq/jzmq/blob/master/COPYING.LESSER (final paragraph). But the Java driver is a pain as you have to compile it yourself (there is no binary for it). Akka is on maven central. http://search.maven.org/#browse%7C1007422773 Also you don't need Scala on your classpath to compile the camel zeromq component. You will if you wanted to compile Akka of course. Shall we put this in camel extra's and be done ? If so, is that just a normal patch submitted to camel jira as per normal ? On 25 September 2012 15:27, Claus Ibsen <claus.ib...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Sam (Stephen Samuel) > <samspad...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I don't think the word "hack" is quite right. The Akka Zeromq driver is > > totally legit. I imagine they wrote it for the same reason - they wanted > to > > keep Akka APL instead of GPL. > > > > Its a hack in the sense that Akka went around the intent from ZeroMQ > which is that their product is LGPL licensed. > If they wanted people to integrate with ZeroMQ using other licenses > then IMHO it would be better if ZeroMQ had dual licenses for its > drivers. > > Since we cannot use a driver from the "source" eg ZeroMQ project, and > have to defer to Akka project which is also Scala based (requiring > Scala on the JVM) is imho going a bit far, and in the area of being a > "hack". > > The other Camel components do not do this. So its a bit controversial > if the ASF community of Camel is interested going down this road. > > And also the Akka releases is not published to maven central. Its not > a blocker though. But software released to maven central is preferred. > Its a bit of pain to have to rely on to many 3rd party maven repos. > > > On 25 September 2012 15:08, Claus Ibsen <claus.ib...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Hi > >> > >> See ticket > >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAMEL-5557 > >> > >> As this component uses a bit of a "hack" to avoid using LGPL I would > >> like fellow riders thoughts on this contribution? > >> > >> There is a number of comments on this ticket, I suggest to read to get > >> up to speed. > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Claus Ibsen > >> ----------------- > >> Red Hat, Inc. > >> FuseSource is now part of Red Hat > >> Email: cib...@redhat.com > >> Web: http://fusesource.com > >> Twitter: davsclaus > >> Blog: http://davsclaus.com > >> Author of Camel in Action: http://www.manning.com/ibsen > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > -Sam > > > > -- > Claus Ibsen > ----------------- > Red Hat, Inc. > FuseSource is now part of Red Hat > Email: cib...@redhat.com > Web: http://fusesource.com > Twitter: davsclaus > Blog: http://davsclaus.com > Author of Camel in Action: http://www.manning.com/ibsen > -- -Sam
