divest from proprietary audio codec software license

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RChain Special Meeting Proposal Apr 2019

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divest from proprietary audio codec software license #9

Closed richjensen3000 closed 5 years ago

richjensen3000 commented 5 years ago

This is a complex subject but also important because of its strategic position and the resources it occupies. Could this project benefit from consideration of a range of scenarios?

dckc commented 5 years ago

Suppose a lot of people answered "yes"; then what? I suspect "could this benefit from consideration ...?" isn't really the question you want answered. I trust you have one or two scenarios you are considering and will elaborate in due course.

Until this is more completely formed, I'm labelling it help wanted and invalid (not meant as a final judgement; just in the interest of clarity about which items I consider sufficiently well formed to be good use of meeting time).

dckc commented 5 years ago

I find myself persuaded by this argument:

I think Rchain ceased to be 100% open source when the coop used nearly all of its funds on a proprietary software license. ... ... the second the majority of funds went to RSong, it ceased to be an open source blockchain project.

The coop should divest any significant interest in a proprietary software license.

@faddat I presume you're OK with my sharing your comment of Apr 28 9:42 PM KC time in #members publicly.

dckc commented 5 years ago

Meredith announced in RChain Community Debrief 133 Jun 19 at about 16:26 that the license agreement has been terminated. So (with a revised scope) this is done to my satisfaction.

cc @faddat