Bytemaster has decided not to have a license. This means it's up to the community to defend the social contract aggressively and relentlessly. Time to build a website which highlights all of these scams so they can be immediately flagged from the womb. Then reverse engineered, discredited, and forked.
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Bytemaster has decided to have a license, and it is with the source code:
https://github.com/InvictusInnovations/BitShares/blob/master/LICENSE.md
EDIT: that thread is funny - it's very much a scam. dozens of posts by people with < 5 posts on BCT, no one is submitting txids for donations. I'm happy people have been getting smarter and not falling for this stuff
Bytemaster says that he does not believe in contracts and is promoting a post contract society so I don't know what the license he has up is even supposed to mean. Is the software protected by the social consensus license or not?
uh, this is still active right?
I have been putting some serious thought into this license and have concluded that any licenses short of placing this in the public domain may have undesirable regulatory consequences not to mention being against my own beliefs about intellectual property being invalid to begin with. Therefore, I would like to tip everyone who helped participate in the discussion and who worked very hard evaluating this bounty. It was an interesting idea worthy of the discussion and time spent on it.
Barsizi... because you have so persistently pursued this and contributed to the cause I will throw 100 PTS your way.
maqifrnswa... you have contributed extremely valuable ideas and I will also throw 100 PTS your way.
btclawyer... as you are a lawyer and spent significant time advising us I will throw you 100 PTS tip as well.
Everyone else who participated in this thread I will throw 1 PTS per post tip your way... just provide me a post count and address.
These are his words. But does the license really protect the social consensus if he says it's supposed to be in the public domain?
Note this is all about moving to the post-contract society, and a software license is a contract.
Only Bytemaster can explain what he means by "Post-contract society". Is there a book which discusses this? Or is he going to offer up a video explanation as to what he means and what that means for the social consensus?
I want to go on record and say I understand why he might have the incentive to say that considering he is putting his neck out there as the head of Invictus, and why it might even be in the best interest for Bitshares from a regulatory concerns point of view, but it adds the wrong kind of ambiguity. Because of that ambiguity the social consensus will have to be enforced socially, and technically, not primarily using the law.
Some tools in our arsenal include
Strategic/tactical forks of the hostile fork.
Tactical information released about official (certified) chains.
Timing.
Tactical information withholding (you can withhold certain information to prevent a hostile fork).
Reverse engineering.
Watermarking and digital signatures (this probably wont be used, but if someone released an exact clone of Bitshares you might need this or some digital signature/md5 so people know the real version).
Community certification of some sort and a list of all DACs accepting the social consensus license (maybe add something like community loyalty % to the DAC index?)
Exposing hostile forks by warning investors of the red flags of a scam.
I think these current forks are amateurish and child like experiments to put the community to the test. The test seems to be to see whether or not the community will do anything to defend the social consensus.
So either the community will rise up and defend the social consensus, or when truly hostile actors backed by large banks get involved it will be too late to develop any defense mechanisms then.