Remove bitcoin.pdf #740
Remove bitcoin.pdf #740
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ACK c131308 checked that this is only removing links, doesn't change content |
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Code review ACK c131308 |
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Could have just linked to bitcoin.org? Oh well (IANAL, but I imagine bitcoin.org at least should have an implicit license to distribute it unmodified since Satoshi himself put it there) |
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This was merged really quickly... |
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It saddens me that fraudsters are bullying open source Bitcoin contribitors. Don't get demotivated though, what you're doing is crucial for the future of humanity. Keep up the hard work guys! |
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In practice you guys have not followed the original vision proposed by Satoshi in the white paper since about 2015 or so. It's good to know that finally the last nail is in the coffin has been hammered-in with this commit. You are congratulating yourselves on it -- As if you guys just accomplished a great feat. Indeed, congratulations are in order. The mental gymnastics required to participate in BTC these days deserves a congratulatory medal, at the very least. |
Here you go: https://web.archive.org/web/20091129231620/https://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/ Feel free to put back the Bitcoin Whitepaper on the site. Next time instead of complying to threats, you could just make people aware of them and let the community defend you. We shouldn't let bullies like Craig Steven Wright (Who is NOT Satoshi Nakamoto, will never be, and who also never contributed to Bitcoin or wrote any of the content present on the whitepaper) have it their way. |
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I understand that contributors want to contribute without spending time on drama. Unfortunately, this will be one of those issues that will cause way more drama and provide material to the "Bitcoin Core Coin" narrative. Perhaps a link to bitcoin.org would've been better than removal. I don't think we should be bending to these malicious actors. Maybe the COPA alliance can be of help. |
Your opinion is irrelevant. |
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You guys are silly. Don't remove the whitepaper. |
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Seriously @laanwj, you are giving more power to the fraud called Craig Steven Wright, you immediately caved like a coward. He been attacking my friend, Hodlonaut, in UK court for over 2 years now, and you guys just keep credence to him. Thanks, seriously. I'm starting to seriously believe you guys seriously don't consider the bigger picture ever. |
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This is ridiculous, |
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Without the whitepaper on bitcoincore.org, how would I know I'm running the right Bitcoin ?! |
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Is this for real? Are you for real? |
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I didn't think there would be such cowardice by @laanwj See also for reference: https://thebitcoinnews.com/us-copyright-office-responds-to-craig-wrights-bitcoin-registrations/
The licensing is CRISTAL CLEAR: The WP was released in the cypherpunk mailing list that has an anti copyright policy to any content distributed there, plus the code is under MIT license. The WP ought to be on the bitcoin core site and repo. |
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Based on the timing, and the lack of knowledge about the fact that the jerkwad also sent demand letters to a half dozen other places, wumpus et al did a reasonable thing. It's not like there's not plenty of options now. Get off their back, fools, unless you have the hundreds of thousands it takes to mount a vigourous legal defence and want to put it in a defence trust. All y'all's perspective right now is retrospectively knowing that the demand letters were sent, and were sent to multiple other victims. This was not knowledge almost anyone had even just a few hours ago. |
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anyone who ACK'd this, should be removed from the ability to merge |
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@harding and @MarcoFalke are both complicit. This is why we don't have absolutely any privacy in bitcoin. |
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maybe you guys can fix the $14 fee problem rather than this horseshit. |
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There's not much we can do in the short run about bullying lawyers, but there is something we can do about unhinged commenters. I suggest locking this thread :-) |
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Can someone put up a pull request to reinstate the white paper? Thanks. |
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@Sjors we have the right to debate this, Bitcoin is everyone's. |
The licensing status of this file is unclear. It can be found in enough places by now, and as this site is about Bitcoin Core (a specific implementation), not about Bitcoin in general, the whitepaper doesn't necessarily need to be hosted here.
Unless anyone can point to an explicit place where Satoshi licensed it under a free license, legally it is safer to remove it from the bitcoin-core.org site.