This is what I was afraid of.  Thanks for this post.

Edit: He deleted this post, but you can read it here:
https://steemd.com/tx/3b205c4416376e13722ddea0fb26a10aa83ecfdc

Tks, it makes things clear. :)

What does it matter?  A good old fashioned lawsuit would only bring attention to this fading community on it's birthday.  Who cares?  do what you feel.  This is blockchain.  Closed vs open source is like alcohol vs weed.  Choose your own adventure.

https://img1.steemit.com/0x0/https://media.giphy.com/media/ygooy6IWQmExi/giphy.gif

I agree open source is the way to go, but profit motive overrules the benefit and inovation to the many. If pharmaceuticals adopted an open source type mentality just think how much better the world would be.

Thanks for the clarification.   Now that you have resigned know there are those of us here that enjoy talking to you about things outside of steemit.   Philosophy, Anarchy, Coding and other things.    I am one of those that would be interested in seeing you at least stick around on the platform to engage in stuff like that with people like myself.    I view this project as more than the code, and the money.    It is also about the people and the ideas.    You can still be involved with that.   If there is some conflict of interest preventing it then I can understand that, but I did want to at least express that I for one would enjoy interaction with you.  I find it personally valuable.    If not here then it'd be nice to somehow know where you might be engaged/interacted with in the future.   My email is simply my handle here at gmail.

As to the open source nature and what you wrote here.   That seemed to be integral to what this project was being designed as.   This is therefore concerning a number of people that see this as being different.

We market it as decentralized.   In a way it is, but as soon as you lock it behind patents, and other barriers you are adding a degree of centralization/gate keeping back into the design.

Good luck, best wishes, and thanks for posting.

Glad to see you're back upvoting your own posts and sucking up the reward pool!  Some things never change with guys like you!

Yeah, I write under `CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)` for the same reasons:

[![](https://cl.ly/3X300Z3r1F3T/Image%202017-03-15%20at%203.24.13%20PM.png)](https://cl.ly/3X300Z3r1F3T/Image%202017-03-15%20at%203.24.13%20PM.png)

For example: https://github.com/inertia186/radiator

Oh wow man, see its a very tricky area when you start talking should thing be allowed to be worked on in public. I'm all for it in most cases but i think in this case anyone pushing the issue is really wanting to see a clone and to see how many can pop up. 

Yes for a freedom standpoint sure sounds like a good idea we could see some amazing things coming out but as i see it right now. There is no real need for it being open source. It should be focusing on other things the vast majority of the public really don't care if its open source. Everyone really mostly cares is it secure.

That interpretation is the same as mine and pretty straight forward. It's plain that Steemit Inc has special power over the network as a result of this clause, since witnesses cannot freely fork without permission in writing.

Gotcha Dan. Thank you for opening up more on the situation and yes, I think the licence should be opened up as well

Downvoted in disagreement with the reward and also because Dan said that he wouldn't be posting or voting any more (and he did not specify a particular account but simply referred to himself). Perhaps he felt this issue was important enough to ignore that statement he made, but it wasn't necessary to self-upvote it as well. On the content, I agree entirely, so in that sense, thank you for posting this, Dan. Good to know that your future projects will be MIT/BSD. (Please also consider a patent clause.) Best of luck with those.

Thank you for posting Dan.  Respect for all you have done, and will do.  Don't be a stranger.  We all appreciate you. As far as the politics is concerned, it's above my paygrade.  All the best.

> I will not be posting or voting any more.

Will you try the `decline_voting_rights` command?

The truth will set us free!