Quote from: r3wt on January 31, 2014, 12:27:07 PM

Quote from: casascius on January 31, 2014, 03:54:05 AM

Quote from: bloods-n-cryptos on January 29, 2014, 12:21:48 AM

If you disagree that the forum operators are going against the spirit (if not the letter) of the MIT/X11 Open Source License, I look forward to your response.

Operating a discussion forum has nothing to do with subject matter such as software licensing. The forum is not source code or intellectual property, and its administrators and moderators have the right to administer and moderate as they see fit. It's also private property and its owners and management have the right to manage it or dispose of it as they see fit, and also have the right to define the mission and vision of the forums, to update these as needs and circumstances change, and to make administrative decisions consistent with them. I am not certain why this is even a question. The MIT/X11 Open Source License has about as much relevance here as the Book of Mormon.

+1. It is the right of a webmaster to censor content on his/her website as they see fit. This is one place where freedom of speech does not apply, and most people fail to understand that.

Please re-read my posts and stay on topic. Wink

Nobody ever claimed the forum wasn't permitted to censor its own content. Indeed, respect of private property rights dictates that this forum can perpetuate whatever it wants, but that doesn't change the legal reality of what can be legally considered "official" in da real world mon.

The point of my post was simply that the forum perpetuates a legal falsehood that there exists an official Bitcoin in the legal sense of the word and the MIT/X11 License was cited for that point.

Again, I never claimed the forum was prohibited from managing the forums how they see fit (and, personally, I don't have a problem with setting the alts free by getting rid of the alt-coins section altogether).

But, whether intentional or not, responses arguing against forum censorship, rather than addressing my actual points re what can legally be considered official outside of this forum, are straw-men arguments tearing down claims I never made.

For example, compare the content of SaltySpoon's and theymos' responses in this thread to both of your responses to see what I mean.