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Permission to Relicense under MPLV2
This document collects grants from firms that hold copyrights in ZeroMQ. Please add new firms at the start. Each patch must be made with a GitHub handle that guarantees identity of the signatory.
iMatix Corporation
This is a statement by iMatix Corporation sprl (iMatix) that grants permission to relicense its copyrights in the libzmq C++ library (ZeroMQ) under the Mozilla Public License v2 (MPLv2).
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The original ZeroMQ codebase was developed from 2007-2009 by FastMQ Inc. (FastMQ) in Slovakia, which held all copyrights in code written by its staff.
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On 2009-11-01, iMatix exercised an option to acquire FastMQ and its assets, including ZeroMQ. On or before 2010-01-05 the FastMQ copyrights in ZeroMQ were transferred to iMatix (commit). The FastMQ legal entity was subsequently liquidated.
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Between 2009 and 2016, iMatix has continued to add contributions to ZeroMQ under the GitHub handle 'hintjens'.
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This grant therefore covers what remains of the original FastMQ codebase plus all later contributions.
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iMatix hereby grants an irrevocable, global, and fully paid-up license on all its copyrights that exist in ZeroMQ, under the MPLv2.
-Pieter Hintjens CEO, iMatix Corporation sprl 23 April 2016