From: "Wladimir J. van der Laan" <laanwj@gmail•com>
To: Ahmed Zsales <ahmedzsales18@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Open Block Chain Licence, BIP[xxxx] Draft
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 23:51:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150901215124.GA4870@amethyst.visucore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADr=VrRT2tdN0jjkZ7HjjeyqonrHG=j+uh8m1L2nhew7c1gnng@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 02:30:17PM +0100, Ahmed Zsales via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We believe the network requires a block chain licence to supplement the
> existing MIT Licence which we believe only covers the core reference client
> software.
As long as it's an open system, one can't require a specific license for everything added to the chain.
You could of course make the BIP advisory, but I'm not sure what that would help. You still wouldn't have any certainty what license the contents of block #XXXX would be under.
Wladimir
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-01 21:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-01 13:30 Ahmed Zsales
2015-09-01 13:43 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-09-01 13:50 ` Bryan Bishop
2015-09-01 15:11 ` Ahmed Zsales
2015-09-01 16:05 ` Natanael
2015-09-01 17:39 ` Luke Dashjr
2015-09-01 18:12 ` Btc Drak
2015-09-01 19:36 ` Ahmed Zsales
2015-09-01 21:36 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-09-01 22:02 ` Ahmed Zsales
2015-09-01 22:42 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-09-01 23:21 ` Ahmed Zsales
2015-09-01 23:40 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-09-01 22:02 ` Btc Drak
2015-09-01 22:11 ` Ahmed Zsales
2015-09-01 22:47 ` Btc Drak
2015-09-01 22:20 ` Natanael
2015-09-01 22:28 ` Ahmed Zsales
2015-09-01 21:51 ` Wladimir J. van der Laan [this message]
2015-09-01 23:39 ` hurricanewarn1
2015-09-02 8:56 ` Warren Togami Jr.
2015-09-02 20:28 ` Ahmed Zsales
2015-09-02 20:58 ` Milly Bitcoin
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