Ok never mind, I cannot reach out to him, sorry.
Il giorno lun 5 giu 2023 alle ore 15:54 Luca Boccassi < [email protected]> ha scritto: > Hi, > > It's mentioned in the issue: > > Laurent Alebarde <[email protected]> > https://github.com/lalebarde > > On Mon, 5 Jun 2023 at 14:49, Francesco <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Hi Luca, > > sorry but can you list the references to the 3 authors that did not > re-license these 3 features? > > In particular the one about zmq_proxy_steerable()... I remember I did > provide some patches and also one other colleague did... if he was the > author of that feature I can surely reach out to him... > > > > Thanks, > > Francesco > > > > > > Il giorno lun 5 giu 2023 alle ore 13:49 Luca Boccassi <[email protected]> > ha scritto: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> As you might or might not be aware, we have been working hard for years > >> to complete the libzmq relicensing effort that Pieter started long ago, > >> from LGPL3+exceptions to standard MPL2: > >> > >> https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/issues/2376 > >> > >> After a lot of work, we are down to only 3 grants missing, covering the > >> following: > >> > >> - tweetnacl integration as alternative to libsodium (relicensing > >> NACKed) > >> - zmq_proxy_steerable() (no answer) > >> - ZMQ_RECONNECT_IVL_MAX (no answer) > >> > >> We have been waiting for years, with many requests without responses > >> for the latter two, and it doesn't make sense to wait anymore. > >> > >> So with this PR the above functionality will simply be removed: > >> > >> https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/pull/4554 > >> > >> I will merge it later today. > >> > >> Tweetnacl is really not a problem, it was always intended as a local- > >> only thing to facilitate zmq_curve development, which is long done. The > >> only supported production encryption implementation is libsodium, which > >> is available everywhere, so I do not intend to put tweetnacl > >> integration back. If anybody was using curve+tweetnacl in a production > >> setting, they were doing something _very_ wrong and need to stop asap > >> anyway. It's a footgun and it's best to be rid of it. > >> > >> The other two are more problematic, as they are public APIs. The PR > >> changes them to be empty stubs that return EOPNOTSUPP (so that ABI > >> doesn't change). But I will make at least an attempt to get a > >> reimplementation so: > >> > >> If you are able to, and you have NEVER LOOKED AT THE PREVIOUS > >> IMPLEMENTATIONS (I will require you to state this explicitly in the > >> commit messages), please consider helping out and reimplementing these > >> two APIs, based solely on the public documentation: > >> > >> http://api.zeromq.org/4-3:zmq-proxy-steerable > >> > http://api.zeromq.org/4-3:zmq-setsockopt#:~:text=connection%2Doriented%20transports-,ZMQ_RECONNECT_IVL_MAX,-%3A%20Set%20maximum%20reconnection > >> > >> I cannot stress this enough, it must be a clean-room reimplementation > >> so no prior knowledge of the previous implementation details nor > >> looking at the previos implementation is allowed (hence why I cannot do > >> it myself). > >> > >> If you are able to help, please speak up. These are not difficult to > >> add, especially the socket option should be very straightforward. I > >> will of course be able to review and provide guidance. > >> > >> After merging the above PR I will complete the relicensing shortly > >> after, taking advantage of the switch to also use the standard SPDX > >> format in source files. The relicense grants will be moved to: > >> https://github.com/rlenferink/libzmq-relicense > >> for archival. > >> > >> -- > >> Kind regards, > >> Luca Boccassi > >> _______________________________________________ > >> zeromq-dev mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > > zeromq-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev >
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