Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP 2 revival and rework

From: Tom Zander <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2016 16:21:41 +0200

On Saturday, 15 October 2016 14:12:09 CEST Marco Falke wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Tom Zander via bitcoin-dev
> 
> <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > My suggestion (sorry for not explaining it better) was that for BIPS to
> > be a public domain (aka CC0) and a CC-BY option and nothing else.
> 
> Indeed, we agree that BIPs should be licensed as permissive as
> possible. Still, I wonder why you chose otherwise with BIP 134.
> (Currently OPL and CC-BY-SA)

OPL was the only allowed option apart from CC0.

I dual licensed it so future acceptance of the CC-BY-SA one may mean someone 
can just remove the OPL from the BIP and no futher action or permission is 
needed from all the authors.

> BIP 2 does not forbid you to release your work under PD in
> legislations where this is possible

It does, actually.

> One
> of the goals of BIP 2 is to no longer allow PD as the only copyright
> option.

That's odd as PD was never the only copyright option.

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