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Research zKSNARKs Blocker: Circom GPL license #12

Closed oskarth closed 3 years ago

oskarth commented 4 years ago

Problem

Currently Circom https://github.com/iden3/circom/blob/master/COPYING uses a GPL license, which can get tricky when it comes to the App Store etc.

Acceptance criteria

  1. Use library which has more permissive license (MIT/Apache)
  2. Confidence that using GPL code wouldn't cause any issues in this case

Notes

Bellman uses a dual MIT/Apache license, just like Nimbus https://github.com/zkcrypto/bellman#license

barryWhiteHat commented 4 years ago

I think the actual blocker is websnark because circom get "compiled" to proving key and verification key so you don't include circom in your lib except witness generation logic which is compiled to wasm IIUC

barryWhiteHat commented 3 years ago

https://github.com/kilic/rlnapp is written with bellman with is mit IIUC.

oskarth commented 3 years ago

Closing as this is no longer a blocker.