On Saturday, October 15, 2016 11:00:35 AM Tom Zander via bitcoin-dev 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. > > I like you agree with that part, but I see you added two licenses. > Do you have a good reason to add MIT/BSD to that list? Otherwise I think we > agree.
BIPs often should include code. > Well, it has this sentence; > > > This BIP is dual-licensed under the Open Publication License and > > BSD 2-clause license. > > Which is a bit odd in light of the initial email from Luke that suggested > we drop the Open Publication License and we use the CC ones instead in > addition to the public domain one. The "real" license in this case is the BSD 2-clause. However, BIP 1 only allows OPL and public domain, so BIP 2 is available under OPL as well so that it is acceptable before/until it activates also. > Thats odd, you just stated you like the public domain (aka CC0) license, > yet you encourage the BIP2 that states we can no longer use public domain > for BIPs... Did you read it? CC0 and public domain are two different things. > This list has not seen a lot of traffic, if you want to make sure people > keep using the BIP process, I think you need to reach out to the rest of > the community and make sure this has been heard and discussed. > Moving forward the way it is now will likely deminish the importance of the > BIP process. Yes, you're right. I'll post to Lightning-dev and libbitcoin's list about BIP 2. If you're aware of any other Bitcoin development discussion groups, could you please bring BIP 2 to their attention so it gets wider review? > 1) if you write as a rationale "In some jurisdictions, public domain is not > recognised as a legitimate legal action" then you can at least name those > jurisdictions and explain how they *do* support things like GPL. Burden of > proof is on the man who wants to change things. As I understand it, presently France and Germany do not recognise public domain as a possible status. GPL is merely a copyright license, so it should be valid anywhere copyright laws exist. Luke _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
