Re:ZeroMQ – Relicense from LGPL3 and exceptions to MPL 2.0
by jacquesm on Monday October 09, 2023 @08:33AM
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Improved interop with other open source programs because they used to have a 'one off' license. That makes using ZeroMQ harder than it should be because there is always the question of whether or not their license is more or less permissive than the one that you've picked for your project and risks future unintended side effects. This move should lay that all to rest.
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Re:ZeroMQ – Relicense from LGPL3 and exceptions to MPL 2.0
by bluGill on Monday October 09, 2023 @09:33AM
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Lawyers have mostly looked at the common open source licenses long enough to know what they say: what is compatible with each other, what is compatible with their [corporate/clients] other needs, and otherwise how it works. While mostly they have not been tested in court, there general consensus they will hold up somehow (nobody knows for sure and there are a couple hundred countries that could each decide their own thing).
When you do your own license though lawyers need to figure everything out for just your project.