How is this on topic here? You might try http://opensource.stackexchange.com/.
On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 8:54 AM, Benjamin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a company which builds on ZeroMQ. It is an open source company in the > area of Cryptocurrencies. A major ZeroMQ contributor has started an > identical company which I believe "uses" my inventions. Not just one or two > ideas of mine, but a complete software architecture which I've spent a long > time developing. I'd be curious to know how this community thinks about such > problems. I haven't personally been in a conflict like this before, but it > certainly is not very enjoyable to see others taking my inventions and > pretending they are theirs (never mind profiting from them). > > The concept of the "Collective Code Construction Contract" as a model of > open collaboration does not address an issue like this and I'd be curious > about opinions. Are opensource principles and business interest compatible > at all? What are rights of intellectual property right holders in contracts > to the right of copying freely? I'm not referring to ZMQ itself of course, > which is LGPL. > > Regards, > > Benjamin > > > On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Benjamin <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev > _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
