Because fiatjaf released nostr as open source software individuals around the world are able to build and iterate on the protocol without permission.
Open source software is viral in nature. It spreads and grows without a company or individual controlling it. With a project like nostr still in its infancy it is amazing to watch the power of open source collaboration in action.
People love to argue about which open source license is best. Fiatjafβs license is two words: βPublic domain.β
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nit: since it's a protocol, there isn't really any "source" to be open π
It's still vital that clients, relays and tools are FOSS.
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Open source protocols are inherently more intelligent than closed systems.
Why does an open source project needs to have a license?
being given permission is cheaper than asking for forgiveness
The power of people
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And that's the beauty of it. We can build what we want to make it into the protocol that we want. It's wild.
Need a curl or wget bridge that returns raw json given a note ID
I made this with https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr-tools but itβs way too rough to publish. You could also look at the command line tools
My favorite one is WTFPL https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL
