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by teraflop 4567 days ago
Why do you think LevelDB isn't open source? https://code.google.com/p/leveldb/
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asperous 4567 days ago
Also some history: Satoshi's original client used BerkeleyDB which had a configuration issue that almost destroyed Bitcoin.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0050.mediawi...

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AsymetricCom 4567 days ago
Because it has dependencies on libs that are not open source, so that means "closed" as propagated across this "open" system.
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teraflop 4567 days ago
I was assuming you were mistaken, but it's starting to look like you're just making things up. LevelDB has no dependencies other the Snappy compression codec, which is both optional and BSD-licensed.
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