oh, and the patent thing.. yeah that's all i frign need. we work on bringing stealth to the bitshares platform via Blockstream's CA technology and they look for someone to sue. Bitshares is a decentralized autonomous community (DAC) though, so if they do merge our code, then I guess that eliminates our liability, right?
the beauty of open source is that anyone can fork, tweak and compete though.. true agorism :)
Yeah. Just a friendly reminder if Blockstream intends to use the power of patent law to claim CA is their IP and is their basis for demanding a license fee (or worse, send you a cease & desist order to stop using any code that includes CA), it would render all your hard work worthless.
Another important point made in that article is that preparation for patents is all done in private and remain private until the patent is granted (if the author doesn't want it public). So the claim that BS is not interested in patents for this or that could be reversed down the road.
Just be cautious man. I know from reading your reports how great an improvement CA is over the libsnark approach, but not if it will compromise stealth down the line via some legal trickery of patent law.
I know this isn't news you want to hear as it makes your job harder, but consider the ramifications before you embed any code you didn't author.
Wel then...
Is there a Lawyer in da house?
I would be happy to pay 500 SBD (is that enough?) to get it in writing from BlockStream that we can use their CA technology in Stealth without having any of those problems (or future problems they might come up with for us).
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