I’m confident the issue here has to do with the community getting blindsided. In my humble opinion, some advanced communication on this would have been seen as a gesture of goodwill and would have done a lot to settle nerves. This is not a technical issue but is instead one of communication.
By the way, using “concern trolling” is a great way to dismiss somebody without addressing their arguments. I’m not sure where this ad hominem tactic came from on these boards but it only lowers the cultural standard of the entire community.
Fair point. To those people I would argue that open licensing and collaboration hasn’t stopped other projects from capitalizing on what they’ve created. I feel that when people are making this argument they’re more upset on how new code is not being leveraged properly but I won’t go beyond that.
Indeed. However, acting constructively would imply that somebody with the authority to do so answers the questions by @secparam, @amiller, @tromer, @sarang, and others. Knowing that a license can be changed doesn’t do much for us at this stage. The community needs to know that their comments are being addressed and not ignored.
I’m in the camp of simply wanting to understand the decision process, reasoning, and business plan behind choosing this license. Hand waving these concerns away and telling us “it’s great for Zcash” simply isn’t enough.