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What this means is that all features from all blockchains based upon Graphene can be adopted by their brother and sister chains. It means that all public chains benefit from developments on other similarly licensed chains.
This also means that people can create derivative chains that do not license their changes to BitShares. BitShares may have to use worker proposals, revenue shares, etc to motivate developers to offer their forks for use with BitShares under a BSD license. It is for this reason that the GPL was not adopted. GPL would prevent 3rd parties from charging BitShares for their work and thus undermine incentives for innovation.
This means that anyone can now adopt and improve upon the Graphene UI and make a better exchange platform.
Cryptonomex was holding on to the Graphene code while we were figuring out our business model. Our model no longer depends upon license fees or revenue sharing from the referral program which means the BitShares ecosystem can redirect those fees to other profitable opportunities.
We will be preparing a more formal press release once we have made all of the commits necessary (to change headers, licenses etc).
Congratulations to people like OpenLedger (CCEDK) and BitCash, your business profits just doubled. Congratulations to BitShares, we have withdrawn our worker proposal requesting that we be compensated for opening up the license.
Ultimately this means that BitShares / Graphene is no longer held back by CNX.
We will continue to work with the community to improve and enhance Graphene and BitShares.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Topic: Cryptonomex to License Graphene and Graphene-UI under BSD License (Read 11871 times)
