building on dero, open source license needed

[glycerine]

Hey Dero is a very cool looking project.

I'm a big Golang fan and I'm looking for a blockchain substrate.

The non-MIT license is, as I'm sure you know, a showstopper at present. I can't build a smart contract using app on top of such a license.

If you mean for dero to be useful to the public at large, you'll need to provide an open source license.

Thank you.

Jason

[outdoteth]

Maybe once smart contracts and all features are added, it should be open source license. I dont see any real reason to now other than allowing other projects who want to copy/fork and create shitcoins.

[Sajo8]

How would that affect DERO in anyway whatsoever? And if the license changes *if( the smart contracts are added, what would prevent "shitcoins" from being made then? How does it even matter in the end?

[p4u]

Its a pity for the Dero project and the community to have a non-free license. There are very useful and well programmed things on the derosuite that could be reused and improved by the open source community. I don't really see the point for not changing to a copyleft restrictive license such as GPLv3 or AGPLv3. That would obligate anyone using code from Dero to publish their code too, so its a win-win situation.

Regarding the "shitcoins" problem, do you really think that's gonna be a issue? Have the shitcoins affected negatively Bitcoin, Monero or Ethereum? Probably the opposite, these projects have learned and increased developer community thanks to third-party blockchains implementation.

Please @CaptainDero & company think about it.