Change txZMQ (from GPL) to a more permissive license (at least LGPL)

Just want to confirm that you are intentionally prohibiting distribution of this package along with proprietary software. While GPL is certainly a valid license for a library, the LGPL is more common for libraries (e.g. psycopg2) – and you (appear to) have licensed other packages under more permissive licenses like MPL and MIT.

[smira]

This repositoriy is now under MPLv2 and version 1.0.0 released.

[ambsw-technology]

That occured to me too, but 16 isn’t crazy so I skimmed the contributions:

• lvh “contributed” a simple rename so no code there
• the following contributors only modified a file in the examples folder: aleksclark, davidjfelix, stenote, eagafonov
• aleksi’s changes were all code style (i.e. whitespace), but they rewrote one block of code in a way that didn’t affection functionality.

So strictly speaking,

• You only need approval from 8 other contributors: j0s, jamesharr, mordae, fladi, arnimarj, nnseva ralphbean, and tisdall to relicense the core
• You should ask AlekSi, but could revert that one code change if they object
• If you can get approval from the last 4x (aleksclark, davidjfelix, stenote, eagafonov), you can include the examples. Otherwise, I’d rename this repo txZMQ-gpl and move everything but the examples to a new repo under the new license.

I was going to at-tag all of the critical contributors, but it’ll probably be better if it comes from you. I suspect most/all will follow your lead if you advocate for a particular license. If you prefer something very permissive (e.g. BSD), you should probably suggest several options (including LGPL) and ask them to mark any/all that they approve of. That will ensure you can adopt a more permissive license even if some object to the one you suggest.