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authorLuke Dashjr <luke-jr+git@utopios.org>2017-01-19 19:55:44 +0000
committerLuke Dashjr <luke-jr+git@utopios.org>2017-01-19 19:55:46 +0000
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BIPs 30, 32, 62, 66, and 103: License under BSD-2-Clause terms
[Thursday, January 19, 2017] [7:46:36 PM UTC] <luke-jr> sipa: if you get a minute, can you give me at least a text-"verbal" ACK for some copyright license to put on BIPs 30, 32, 62, 66, and 103 please? is BSD-2-Clause okay? [Thursday, January 19, 2017] [7:47:01 PM UTC] <sipa> luke-jr: ACK on 2-clause BSD for 30,32,62,66,103 [Thursday, January 19, 2017] [7:47:13 PM UTC] <sipa> (and for any other BIPs I contributed to)
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Status: Final
Type: Standards Track
Created: 2015-01-10
+ License: BSD-2-Clause
</pre>
==Abstract==
This document specifies proposed changes to the Bitcoin transaction validity rules to restrict signatures to strict DER encoding.
+==Copyright==
+
+This BIP is licensed under the 2-clause BSD license.
+
==Motivation==
Bitcoin's reference implementation currently relies on OpenSSL for signature validation, which means it is implicitly defining Bitcoin's block validity rules. Unfortunately, OpenSSL is not designed for consensus-critical behaviour (it does not guarantee bug-for-bug compatibility between versions), and thus changes to it can - and have - affected Bitcoin software.