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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and "remains a good choice" in the endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
