Author: Eric Voskuil Date: To: Thomas Hartman CC: libbitcoin@lists.dyne.org Subject: Re: [Libbitcoin] License - what about a truly free license (humble
and extremely important enquiry for the project)
The testnet option is compiled into libbitcoin, an sx dependency. It would be nice for this to instead be configurable.
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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:
>> /LICENSE , I missed the meaning of rows 31-34 from being stuck at rows 7, 17, 19 and lost among the OpenSSL exception etc.
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>> If I'd have read the word "lesser" on /README row 2 first it I should have had the context not to miss that.
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>> 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.
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>> 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"?
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>>> On 2014-05-13 23:04, Amir Taaki wrote:
>>> yep, let me know where I can add this for clarity. Where did you look
>>> first? The README?
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>>> 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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