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| author | Luke Dashjr <luke-jr+git@utopios.org> | 2017-01-19 19:55:44 +0000 |
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| committer | Luke Dashjr <luke-jr+git@utopios.org> | 2017-01-19 19:55:46 +0000 |
| commit | 855eb2200406166032debb719a0eedf0ae4e3860 (patch) | |
| tree | 7fcd7954fbb538df860e22e49f40af821a03e1a2 /bip-0066.mediawiki | |
| parent | 872bda33b51b0b28f339e9dfd3c6d16226cf1d46 (diff) | |
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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diff --git a/bip-0066.mediawiki b/bip-0066.mediawiki index d2ab189..a47c82d 100644 --- a/bip-0066.mediawiki +++ b/bip-0066.mediawiki @@ -8,12 +8,17 @@ 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. |