Quote from: doublec on September 05, 2011, 07:49:49 AM

Quote from: MrMoon on September 05, 2011, 01:53:24 AM

Not that I believe Realsolid did the right thing (I certainly support open source), it should be noted that under the MIT license he is capable of doing what he did legally, so if it is successful (which I personally believe it won't be) I don't see why it matters if you don't have a preference.

RealSolid removed the COPYING file from the source distribution. That file, the license, states:

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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

He also renamed the copyright in each file from 'Bitcoin Developers' to 'Solidcoin Developers'. When called out for this by one of the bitcoin developers he refused to change saying something to the effect of "Why should you have a copyright on the bugs you've added". Would you be happy if someone took your open source code, removed the license and changed all the copyright statements to be someone else?

Nope, but that's why society has lawyers.