Autore: Thomas Hartman Data: To: Eric Voskuil CC: libbitcoin@lists.dyne.org Oggetto: Re: [Libbitcoin] License - what about a truly free license (humble
and extremely important enquiry for the project)
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Thomas Hartman
<thomas@???>wrote:
> I suppose I would go with
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> sx --network=testnet3
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> Backwards compaible, with mainnet the default.
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> I would target getting sx working with testnet without recompiling, before
> targetting sx for altcoins. I think it encompasses a lot of the same
> issues, but more tractably.
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> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 7:41 AM, Eric Voskuil <eric@???> wrote:
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>> The testnet option is compiled into libbitcoin, an sx dependency. It
>> would be nice for this to instead be configurable.
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>> e
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>> On May 14, 2014, at 7:28 AM, Thomas Hartman <thomas@???>
>> wrote:
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>> I suppose
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>> sx --currency=litecoin
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>> with bitcoin default might work. This would be backwards compatible.
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>> That being said, to me, this is only a really attractive option if all
>> the currency-specific code can be specified in an config file that is read
>> at compile time.
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>> I suppose this would be things like the genesis block, and scrypt vs sha.
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>> Perhaps a similar mechanism could also be used to control whether testnet
>> or mainnet is specified.
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>> Maybe there is a way to distinguish testnet/mainnet with sx already but I
>> couldn't figure it out.
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>> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 6:26 AM, mlmikael <mlmikael@???>wrote:
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>>> /LICENSE , I missed the meaning of rows 31-34 from being stuck at rows
>>> 7, 17, 19 and lost among the OpenSSL exception etc.
>>>
>>> If I'd have read the word "lesser" on /README row 2 first it I should
>>> have had the context not to miss that.
>>>
>>>
>>> LGPL for Debian devs, ok - it's like, Debian prefers LGPL packages for
>>> some reasons so therefore consider relicense for everyone?
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>>>
>>> Ok very well, now to practical priorities. Just in case you have any new
>>> thoughts on Litecoin feel free to tell.
>>>
>>> How different do you feel they are with regard to console use, will
>>> LibBitcoin operations for Litecoin be done using "sx -l" or by a new "lx"?
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2014-05-13 23:04, Amir Taaki wrote:
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>>>> yep, let me know where I can add this for clarity. Where did you look
>>>> first? The README?
>>>>
>>>> BTW I might change the license to vanilla LGPL for Debian devs, but not
>>>> before discussing with others here first. Thanks for all your input.
>>>>
>>>>
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