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From: Tom Zander <tomz@freedommail.ch>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] DPL is not only not enough, but brings unfounded confidence to Bitcoin users
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2016 12:01:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1481070.m2uoBWnWHP@strawberry> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD438HswfYG6MZ_4cWVNgCL8HwKWhMs+JvhVUFCnDu0+Hu-D-g@mail.gmail.com>

On Friday, 14 October 2016 04:51:01 CEST Daniel Robinson via bitcoin-dev 
wrote:
> > Because if not, the DPL is still better than the status quo.
> 
> Agreed. Also worth noting that it has a potential advantage over
> unilateral patent disarmament, analogous to the advantage of copyleft
> licenses over MIT/BSD: it provides an incentive (at least a theoretical
> one) for other companies to adopt it too.

This is a very important point and a huge step forward in my opinion.

The downside of MIT/BSD licenses is that companies can take and not give 
back. It doesn't build a community and commonly-shared property. Copyleft 
allows people to take and embrace, but if they extend they have to give 
back. Which is fair, you build it on their stuff...

-- 
Tom Zander
Blog: https://zander.github.io
Vlog: https://vimeo.com/channels/tomscryptochannel


  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-10-15 10:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-14 10:38 [bitcoin-dev] DPL is not only not enough, but brings unfounded confidence to Bitcoin users Sergio Demian Lerner
2016-10-14 10:57 ` Peter Todd
2016-10-14 11:51   ` Daniel Robinson
2016-10-14 12:31     ` Peter Todd
2016-10-15 10:01     ` Tom Zander [this message]
2016-10-14 18:10   ` Sergio Demian Lerner
2016-10-14 19:01   ` Nick ODell
2016-10-14 21:07     ` Daniel Robinson

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