On Mon, Aug 5, 2024 at 10:38 AM Cristian Le <fedora@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > This issue came up when trying to package rust-tiny-bip39 [1]. Basically > there are some projects that are spun off of Bitcoin Improvement > Proposals (BIP), in this case BIP39 [2] which establishes a wordlist > which can be use as mnemonic to encode/decode a long series of bits. Te > issue is that typically these BIPs are licensed [3], but (maybe) because > BIP39 has not passed the proposed stage, it did not receive a proper > license. So the question is, how to deal with the wordlist defined in BIP39? > > Contacting the upstream developer is difficult as they don't have an > open issue page, and the main means of external people to get in touch > with them is through their google mailing list, which would require > exposing my personal gmail account to who knows what (given the > association with bitcoin), which I am not comfortable of doing. In > Fedora there is another BIP39 based project, python-mnemonic [4], which > is the reference code for BIP39, where the only license specified is > MIT. I have looked at the review request ticket [5], but the licensing > of BIP39 was not discussed there. Any advice on this situation? Sorry, I thought I had responded to this. If we assume that the creators of the word lists have copyright on the word lists, the lists apparently are in python-mnemonic under the MIT license and the author of the word lists there is one of the authors of BIP39. So I'd conclude from that that the word lists (which I assume are substantially the same in rust-tiny-bip39) are under the MIT license. Richard > [1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2297307 > [2]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawiki > [3]: > https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0002.mediawiki#bip-licensing > [4]: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-mnemonic > [5]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1395867 -- _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to legal-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
