The current source files in test/ do not have a license, so they are fully copyrighted.
I'd like to request MIT license be added so that other bitcoin implementations can use the same unit test values as the reference client.
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dajohi commented at 6:07 PM on March 11, 2014: contributor
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TheBlueMatt commented at 6:11 PM on March 11, 2014: member
My contributions to bitcoin in that folder are licensed under MIT.
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gmaxwell commented at 6:11 PM on March 11, 2014: contributor
I think this was the intention all along. I agree we should fix this.
Git blame (for the json files) says for maximum prudence we should also get confirmation from CodeShark, gavinandresen, sipa, petertodd, wumpus, grau.
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sipa commented at 6:11 PM on March 11, 2014: member
I agree with MIT license for these files.
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CodeShark commented at 6:11 PM on March 11, 2014: contributor
confirmed
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sipa commented at 6:12 PM on March 11, 2014: member
To be clear: gmaxwell's list of people only includes those who wrote json data for tests, not the tests themselves.
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vegard commented at 6:24 PM on March 11, 2014: contributor
I'm fine with MIT license for all my contributions as well.
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jgarzik commented at 6:26 PM on March 11, 2014: contributor
ACK MIT
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luke-jr commented at 6:37 PM on March 11, 2014: member
ACK MIT
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petertodd commented at 6:54 PM on March 11, 2014: contributor
ACK MIT
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gavinandresen commented at 6:58 PM on March 11, 2014: contributor
ACK MIT. Or whatever. Do people really worry about stuff like this?
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laanwj commented at 8:04 PM on March 11, 2014: member
ACK MIT
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luke-jr commented at 12:06 AM on March 12, 2014: member
@gavinandresen People have to "worry" about stuff like this in most jurisdictions...
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gmaxwell commented at 12:11 AM on March 12, 2014: contributor
@luke-jr No need to start an argument. Even if it's pointless to get confirmation, its stupidly cheap to do... and acts as a kind of group confirmation of conscientiousness: "We make an effort to produce software which is high quality in every way".
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Diapolo commented at 2:24 PM on March 12, 2014: none
ACK
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dajohi commented at 5:17 PM on March 14, 2014: contributor
I'd recommend a LICENSE file in src/test/data and
<pre> // Copyright (c) 2009-2013 The Bitcoin developers // Distributed under the MIT/X11 software license, see the accompanying // file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php. </pre>
in the source files in src/test/ ?
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