BIP39: add license and copyright section #1680

pull jonatack wants to merge 1 commits into bitcoin:master from jonatack:2024-10-BIP39-license-and-copyright-section changing 1 files +5 −0

jonatack commented at 4:56 pm on October 8, 2024: member

These are required for legal use, and also per BIP-2, and they avoid user confusion as seen in #1395 (comment).

Choice of MIT license per BIP author feedback in #1395 (comment).

The license omission was likely an oversight.

BIP-39 predates BIP-2 by 2-3 years. BIP-1 (in force at the time, since superseded by BIP-2) did require a copyright or public domain section.

BIP39: add license and copyright section

These are required per BIP-2, and they avoid user confusion as seen in

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/1395#issuecomment-2393915807

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jonatack commented at 4:59 pm on October 8, 2024: member

cc @prusnak for approval
jonatack added the label Proposed BIP modification on Oct 8, 2024
prusnak commented at 5:14 pm on October 8, 2024: contributor

ACK
murchandamus commented at 5:54 pm on October 8, 2024: contributor

Concept ACK, but for a license change, I expect that we need all rights holders to agree. cc: @slush0, @ebfull, @voisine
kanzure commented at 7:13 pm on October 8, 2024: contributor

is licensing and CLAs addressed in the new bip2 @murchandamus ?
slush0 commented at 7:21 pm on October 8, 2024: contributor

ACK MIT
jonatack commented at 10:21 pm on October 18, 2024: member

Pinging @ebfull and @voisine for approval here.
murchandamus added the label Pending acceptance on Nov 7, 2024
murchandamus commented at 8:47 pm on November 12, 2024: contributor

is licensing and CLAs addressed in the new bip2 @murchandamus ?

Just in so far as we have always required an “acceptable license” that permitted others to use the work. My new process BIP draft so far does not propose a CLA.
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jonatack commented at 1:36 pm on December 17, 2024: member

Re-pinging @ebfull and @voisine for approval here.