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?
[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
