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Author: Amir Taaki
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To: libbitcoin
Subject: Re: [Libbitcoin] License - what about a truly free license (humble and extremely important enquiry for the project)
yep (for now)...

On 14/05/14 17:48, Thomas Hartman wrote:
> That being said, testnet obelisk servers are:
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> https://wiki.unsystem.net/index.php/Obelisk/Servers
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> I suppose to run obelisk as testnet is a compile time decision as well,
> right?
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> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Thomas Hartman
> <thomas@??? <mailto:thomas@standardcrypto.com>> wrote:
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>     Feature request at

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>     https://github.com/spesmilo/sx/issues/72

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>     On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Thomas Hartman
>     <thomas@??? <mailto:thomas@standardcrypto.com>> wrote:

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>         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@???
>         <mailto:eric@voskuil.org>> 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@???
>             <mailto:thomas@standardcrypto.com>> 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@???
>>             <mailto:mlmikael@openmailbox.org>> 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.

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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:

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>>                     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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