[Webfunds-users] Trader Plug-In and Web Funds Wallet

Tue, 20 Feb 2001 18:34:47 -0400

Hi Craig,

SnowDog wrote:
> I would still argue that the Trader Plug-In be a separate program than the
> wallet, since the wallet should be something that fits in your back pocket,
> and little more. :)

Trader could be a separate program if someone decides to release it
that way. It currently is part of WebFunds because that was the
easiest: it uses the SOX network protocol and the SOX payment system
to handle the requests and the money. By integrating it we could more
easily re-use the code :-)

> Q: Is the technology to create a wallet, (and do things like open DigiGold
> Accounts and perform DigiGold Transactions), an open-source, or is it
> proprietary information which will be kept proprietary.

It is part of the WebFunds project and hence open-source. Check 
out the website for instructions on how to download the source. 
The license has never actually been finalized but we have been 
leaning towards Mozilla or the Sun SISSL license (which basically 
is a Mozilla license on steroids). 

See http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ for the text of those 
licenses.

> Q2: Otherwise, if the technology is to be kept 'in-house', then what about
> the simple ability to make a DigiGold Deposit, and receive a notification
> back regarding success or failure. It would seem that this automated
> function would be necessary to developing a web application which accepts
> DigiGold as a form of payment.

Rachel already mailed what her company intends to do. Anyone can
take the WebFunds code and do something similar.

There is automated settlement built into the SOX payments already,
in that each deposit (incoming) and payment (outgoing) results in
a receipt from the server.

HTH,
Jeroen
-- 
Jeroen C. van Gelderen - jeroen@vangelderen.org

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 would also do that." -- Abraham Lincoln, August 22, 1862