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Hell, it can bring precedent to OSS licenses. Bitcoin is MIT licensed : '[...] THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, [...]'. If you, a
by rrobukef 5y ago
Hell, it can bring precedent to OSS licenses. Bitcoin is MIT licensed : '[...] THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, [...]'.
If you, as a creator, can hold co-authors responsible for losses.
- nullc 5y agoFWIW, in this legal action Wright expressly states that his claims of being Bitcoin's creator are irrelevant for the case. His claimed cause of action is that as a user he negligently handled his bitcoins and lost them to hackers, and that the some random subset of the authors (e.g. the ones best able to debunk his claims of being Bitcoin's creator) owe him a fiduciary duty to make him whole.