From: Milly Bitcoin <milly@bitcoins•info>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Open Block Chain Licence, BIP[xxxx] Draft
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 09:43:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55E5AB78.3080901@bitcoins.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADr=VrRT2tdN0jjkZ7HjjeyqonrHG=j+uh8m1L2nhew7c1gnng@mail.gmail.com>
> 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.
I suggest talking to a lawyer first. To have a license you need an
entity that holds the license. What entity actually holds the MIT
license? There is a copyright notice on the Core Client that claims the
license is held by the developers. It that the main core developers,
anyone who has ever submitted an accepted pull request, or something
else? I don't think there is any kind of valid license on the software
to begin with. Just posting a notice does not make it true just like
all those "terms of use" web notices are generally not valid contracts
(see "click wrap vs. "browser wrap" discussions).
What entity would actually hold a "blockchain license" and who decides
who would hold the license? If the developers decide there should be a
license that means the developers own the blockchain and I don't think
that is consistent with what is going on here.
Russ
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-01 13:43 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 [this message]
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
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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