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Did you read the link? "On our side, we apologize for misplacing the MIT license that Bitcoin uses. A friendly reminder would all have been necessary." They s

Did you read the link? "On our side, we apologize for misplacing the MIT license that Bitcoin uses. A friendly reminder would all have been necessary." They say a friendly reminder would have been enough, which implies they didn't get any notice except a DMCA take down. If SOPA was enabled right now they could have gone even further and got domain names confiscated for offenses as slight at this, a missing license.txt . It's inappropriate response from the Bitcoin developers.

nullc 15y ago
And you believe it? Why? Google for solidcoin copyright. You can see the posts on bitcoin talk _months ago_ talking about this. Looking for myself, it appears that they still haven't fixed the copyright notices. The file cited on the github page still has the mentioned code with nothing but a copyright notice by solidcoin. And if there is no issue they could simply file a DMCA counternotice and get everything put back up.
- igothacknews 15y ago
  I find it funny you haven't even bothered to read the link as it's all contained there. Is this the sort of effort you put into researching your claims? They say they are in the process of getting github back from the DMCA claim. You must be a bitcoin developer because I can't see any reasonable person would suggest your first action in handling a situation like this is firing off a SOPA/DMCA claim for a missing mention in a text file. It's an open source project.
- makomk 15y ago
  I think they have, but it takes something like a week? Also, there's an open question as to whether Luke Jr's modification was even substantial enough to claim copyright. (For what it's worth, the same guy that did this is also running a 51% denial of service attack against my own pet Bitcoin alternative using the Bitcoin mining pool he runs. The other Bitcoin developer mentioned in that forum post - gmaxwell - is an op on the IRC channel for the pool and has been trying to stop me countering Luke's attempts to mislead people into thinking his pool wasn't involved in various places.)
  - DiabloD3 15y ago
    DiabloMiner author and Bitcoin forum mod here. makomk, enough with the FUD, eh? gmaxwell is not protecting LukeJr, nor has LukeJr done anything worth throwing a fit over. This is offtopic for HN, take it elsewhere.

nullc 15y ago

And you believe it? Why? Google for solidcoin copyright. You can see the posts on bitcoin talk _months ago_ talking about this. Looking for myself, it appears that they still haven't fixed the copyright notices. The file cited on the github page still has the mentioned code with nothing but a copyright notice by solidcoin. And if there is no issue they could simply file a DMCA counternotice and get everything put back up.

igothacknews 15y ago
I find it funny you haven't even bothered to read the link as it's all contained there. Is this the sort of effort you put into researching your claims? They say they are in the process of getting github back from the DMCA claim. You must be a bitcoin developer because I can't see any reasonable person would suggest your first action in handling a situation like this is firing off a SOPA/DMCA claim for a missing mention in a text file. It's an open source project.
makomk 15y ago
I think they have, but it takes something like a week? Also, there's an open question as to whether Luke Jr's modification was even substantial enough to claim copyright. (For what it's worth, the same guy that did this is also running a 51% denial of service attack against my own pet Bitcoin alternative using the Bitcoin mining pool he runs. The other Bitcoin developer mentioned in that forum post - gmaxwell - is an op on the IRC channel for the pool and has been trying to stop me countering Luke's attempts to mislead people into thinking his pool wasn't involved in various places.)
- DiabloD3 15y ago
  DiabloMiner author and Bitcoin forum mod here. makomk, enough with the FUD, eh? gmaxwell is not protecting LukeJr, nor has LukeJr done anything worth throwing a fit over. This is offtopic for HN, take it elsewhere.