Changes to the DAO
codebase require votes by SoftCoin holders and any attempt they make to push code to end the project will not be approved by the majority of owners.
More importantly though, the GPL creates a culture of giving back, resulting in even some of the most tightlipped of OEMs pushing some code upstream to the mainline Android Open Source Project (AOSP) itself, even if only for the sake of reducing the amount of maintenance that
their codebase requires.
Not exact matches
Since it is an upgrade to enhance the blockchain's capabilities and features, the entire community — headed by the core developers — would transit to the new chain as the upgrade
requires a change in the underlying
codebase.
Setting up an LCP license server from the open - source
codebase is not complex, but good technical skills are still
required.
They may propose an implementation, but not to Bitcoin's
codebase; they often
require community consensus; unlike Informational BIPs, they are more than recommendations, and users are typically not free to ignore them.