- From: Scott Elcomb <psema4@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 13:27:58 -0400
- To: Joseph Potvin <jpotvin@opman.ca>
- Cc: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>, Web Payments CG <public-webpayments@w3.org>
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Joseph Potvin <jpotvin@opman.ca> wrote: > To get an answer to your question it appears you'll hit an > Intellectual Provenance (IP) restriction, because your learning would > be under the terms of the license (see below). Should you inspect > any of the assets provided via > http://developer.mintchipchallenge.com/downloads.php then if you > actually learn any of the computational ideas implemented in MintChip, > for the rest of your career you'd better be careful about the several > patents held by the core system developers. More likely, it seems you > need not expect to get source code access to any of the interesting > tidbits: > http://mintchipchallenge.challengepost.com/forum_topics/759 As a participant in the contest I recall that particular thread. I continued working on my entry (not submitted unfortunately) because it was MintChips were fun to work with and because I'd reached the same conclusion as @TerryWilcox. As far as the discovery phase goes, it was a great idea. My support for MintChip 2.0 will in large part depend on how transparency issues are resolved. -- Scott Elcomb @psema4 on Twitter / Identi.ca / Github & more Atomic OS: Self Contained Microsystems http://code.google.com/p/atomos/ Member of the Pirate Party of Canada http://www.pirateparty.ca/
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