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From: Btc Drak <btcdrak@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 19:12:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADJgMztScEsDEy277Jksy2RckbpzeRw6RbQzyVrdkjJSS=hHPA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADr=VrRT2tdN0jjkZ7HjjeyqonrHG=j+uh8m1L2nhew7c1gnng@mail.gmail.com>

Without commenting on your proposal at all, the general problem with
licensing after the fact is you require the permission of every
copyright holder in order to make the change.



On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Ahmed Zsales via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org> 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.
>
> Replacing or amending the existing MIT Licence is beyond the scope of this
> draft BIP.
>
> Rationale and details of our draft BIP for discussion and evaluation are
> here:
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwEbhrQ4ELzBMVFxajNZa2hzMTg/view?usp=sharing
>
> Regards,
>
> Ahmed
>
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-09-01 18:12 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 [this message]
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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