Hi Pieter,
[On list;
On 23/04/16 4:31, Pieter Hintjens wrote:
iMatix Corporation sprl, with address at 13-15 rue des Ateliers, 1080
Brussels Belgium, hereby grants an irrevocable, global, and fully
paid-up license on all its copyrights that exist in the libzmq code
base, and any other projects under the ZeroMQ organization on GitHub,
under the Mozilla Public License version 2.
With my "time traveller from the future" hat on:
- please commit this statement into at least one of the ZeroMQ git
archives (eg, https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq)
- ZeroMQ was originally developed by FastMQ, which iMatix acquired
(http://lists.zeromq.org/pipermail/zeromq-dev/2009-November/001353.html;
http://imatix.wikidot.com/press:fastmq-acquisition)
- can you say something about whether that acquisition included transfer
of all FastMQ copyrights to iMatix, and thus whether the FastMQ
originated code/copyright is covered by this MPLv2 license grant; or
whether FastMQ remained a separate subsidiary of iMatix and the
copyrights remained separate[0]; and
- can you say something about your understanding of what proportion of
the copyright FastMQ owned, at the time of the acquisition by iMatix
(2009-11-01), versus what proportion of the copyright was owned
individually by developers who might have been working for/with FastMQ.
Thanks,
Ewen
[0] The press release says FastMQ became "a division of iMatix
Corporation" which implies separate, but the copyright strings in the
files got updated about 2 months later:
https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/commit/4f6baf4dde627656b63cc4e2acdb78a8577ba640
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