From 204cc7572e6fa13f29b2e229aad66ec6e2315a2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "David A. Harding" Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2023 13:15:23 -1000 Subject: [PATCH] CH03::intro: clarify what open source means Having an open community is not required. --- ch03.asciidoc | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/ch03.asciidoc b/ch03.asciidoc index 1de55fc5..a44803e4 100644 --- a/ch03.asciidoc +++ b/ch03.asciidoc @@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ ((("open source licenses")))((("Nakamoto, Satoshi")))Bitcoin is an _open source_ project and the source code is available under an open (MIT) -license, free to download and use for any purpose. Open source means -more than simply free to use. It also means that bitcoin is developed by +license, free to download and use for any purpose. More than just being +open source, Bitcoin is developed by an open community of volunteers. At first, that community consisted of only Satoshi Nakamoto. By 2016, bitcoin's source code had more than 400 contributors with about a dozen developers working on the code almost