{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub1lf5jdpupmcelz945y09tzawew6pqs5wkkp6dppeujgxxnqltgufsmzuul6","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub1lf5jdpupmcelz945y09tzawew6pqs5wkkp6dppeujgxxnqltgufsmzuul6","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2016-10-02\n📝 Original message:The purpose of this list is highly technical discussion, not political\ndisagreements.\n\nIs this particular proposal encumbered by a licensing type, patent, or\npending patent which would preclude it from being used in the bitcoin\nproject?  If not, you're wildly off topic.\n\nOn Oct 2, 2016 12:11 PM, \"Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev\" \u003c\nbitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org\u003e wrote:\n\n\u003e On Sun, Oct 02, 2016 at 02:00:01PM -0300, Sergio Demian Lerner wrote:\n\u003e \u003e Peter, are you really going to try to down vote a decent free and\n\u003e \u003e open-source proposal that benefits all the Bitcoin community including\n\u003e \u003e you and your future children because a personal attack to me without any\n\u003e \u003e logic or basis?\n\u003e\n\u003e I've suggested a way that you can rectify this situation so we can\n\u003e continue to\n\u003e collaborate: Have Rootstock adopt a legally binding patent pledge/license.\n\u003e I'd\n\u003e suggest you do as Blockstream has done and at minimum adopt the Defensive\n\u003e Patent License (DPL); I personally will be doing so in the next week or\n\u003e two for\n\u003e my own consulting company (I'm discussing exactly how to do so with my\n\u003e lawyer\n\u003e right now).\n\u003e\n\u003e If Rootstock is not planning on getting any patents for offensive purposes,\n\u003e then there is no issue with doing so - the DPL in particular is designed\n\u003e in a\n\u003e minimally intrusive way.\n\u003e\n\u003e Please fix this issue so we can in fact continue to collaborate to improve\n\u003e Bitcoin.\n\u003e\n\u003e --\n\u003e https://petertodd.org 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org\n\u003e\n\u003e _______________________________________________\n\u003e bitcoin-dev mailing list\n\u003e bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org\n\u003e https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev\n\u003e\n\u003e\n-------------- next part --------------\nAn HTML attachment was scrubbed...\nURL: \u003chttp://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20161002/a23d4ab3/attachment.html\u003e"}