<div dir="ltr">I'm slightly confused here.<div><br></div><div>I was thinking of implementing <a href="http://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:23" target="_blank">http://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:23</a></div><div><br></div><div>The text in RFC says</div>
<div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">This Specification is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; </span><br>
</div><div><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The words "with this program" do not make sense - there is no program. Just a spec of</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">what you see on the wire. How can I receive a copy of a program when there is no program?</span></div><div><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
</span></div><div><font color="#000000" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Then the text is copyrighted and </font><font color="#000000" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif">licensed</font><font color="#000000" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> in three different ways.</font></div>
<div><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><font color="#000000" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Do I have to do a darkroom implementation and swear on the bones of my</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif">dearly lamented Aunty Doreen that I have never read the C++ code on the zero MQ site?</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I just want to read the spec and implement it. This is presumably why it has been published.</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif">RFCs accepted by ISOC are described in</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.rfc-editor.org/copyright.23Jan01.html" target="_blank">https://www.rfc-editor.org/copyright.23Jan01.html</a></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif">In their wisdom ISOC do not license RFCs - but they retain a copyright. </font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I would be very happy to a see a change in the ZMQ RFCs in line with what ISOC does.</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Cheers</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif">/Joe</font></div>
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</span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 3:23 PM, james <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james@mansionfamily.plus.com" target="_blank">james@mansionfamily.plus.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 31/01/2014 07:12, Joe Armstrong wrote:<br>
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Pieter suggest looking at<br>
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<a href="https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/blob/master/tests/test_stream.cpp" target="_blank">https://github.com/zeromq/<u></u>libzmq/blob/master/tests/test_<u></u>stream.cpp</a><br>
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These implement the wire-line protocol on top of tcp rather than through the<br>
0mz library so its easier to see whats going on.<br>
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Isn't that dangerous if there is a significant difference in the desired license?<br>
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The zmtp license is more liberal.<br>
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