From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D93AB94D for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2016 14:21:46 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from mx-out02.mykolab.com (mx.kolabnow.com [95.128.36.1]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 415769C for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2016 14:21:46 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at kolabnow.com X-Spam-Score: -2.9 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from mx05.mykolab.com (mx05.mykolab.com [10.20.7.161]) by mx-out02.mykolab.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 605476193D for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2016 16:21:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Tom Zander To: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2016 16:21:41 +0200 Message-ID: <1866359.UpcIIOnrOv@strawberry> In-Reply-To: References: <201609240636.01968.luke@dashjr.org> <1574488.v0vhHDvJj4@strawberry> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on smtp1.linux-foundation.org X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 15 Oct 2016 14:29:12 +0000 Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP 2 revival and rework X-BeenThere: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2016 14:21:47 -0000 On Saturday, 15 October 2016 14:12:09 CEST Marco Falke wrote: > On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 1:00 PM, 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. > > Indeed, we agree that BIPs should be licensed as permissive as > possible. Still, I wonder why you chose otherwise with BIP 134. > (Currently OPL and CC-BY-SA) OPL was the only allowed option apart from CC0. I dual licensed it so future acceptance of the CC-BY-SA one may mean someone can just remove the OPL from the BIP and no futher action or permission is needed from all the authors. > BIP 2 does not forbid you to release your work under PD in > legislations where this is possible It does, actually. > One > of the goals of BIP 2 is to no longer allow PD as the only copyright > option. That's odd as PD was never the only copyright option. -- Tom Zander Blog: https://zander.github.io Vlog: https://vimeo.com/channels/tomscryptochannel