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James, how about we explore non-legal recourses first? I've suggested proof of prior art and reputation damage, any other ideas? Maybe steganography for art/video assets?

Maybe we just follow the cryptocurrency style. Open source. Free to use. For everyone!

Usage is fine. Stealing outright is not.

Things like clients should be open source and free to use for everyone. Things like web services shouldn't be open source.. Look at all the BTC and LTC clones. Everyone uses the same client/wallet. And it wasn't created by satoshi. Did it harm BTC or LTC? No..

+1. No matter what we we do, we should avoid to make Nxt a corporation. There is no Nxt entity, only open source individual's works and contribution. Between corporation and theft, I rather choose theft.

I certainly never advocated a corporation???
Just trying to prevent thieves

Seems like there are clever non-legal solutions. Maybe a non-legal non-binding statement a developer can put into the software? That way the spirit can be preserved without going all legal.

James

Also, the idea is to protect the software from mis-use. If someone comes up with a terrific way of using it and improving on it, surely that's all in the game?

One of the biggest drawbacks of copyright at it's most restrictive is that things can't even be improved.

I've seen many people on here who actually welcome people working with their code if it actually makes it better. That's one of the things that is so appealing about this project.

Seeing how most of the people who

The concept of open source is at its most fundamental level premised on copyright. It is precisely because the author of open source software is the copyright owner and entitled to enforce his rights that he is entitled to attach an open source license to the software and thereby dictate the terms of its use by others.