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Hi, i was wondering if electrum was open source.

i would like to port it to my project, OpenSourceCoin as a liteclient. should i change the name so people don't get confused? like, Electrum-OSC edition?

for more info on OSC

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=268705.0

thanks in advance. i wanted to ask permission before i went forward with my project

Electrum is licensed under GNU GPL 3 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License). You are free to modify the source code to your hearts content.

I think harningt is bringing the Litecoin code fork (client and server) back to life

My intent for Litecoin is to get it in the Android client and do any patchwork to get a running Litecoin server working.

In my initial tests, it looks like getting Litecoin running underneath ABE worked fine when I did some tests (though no pruning/etc so huge DB). I'll need to get that up-and-running soon again... (had to select a specific version of ABE, a specific version of electrum-server, and do some ugly massaging).

A side-effect would be that the original old Litecoin electrum /should/ be compatible with the server and 'just work'... though of course there's the Litecoin issue of fee calculation being complex that would likely need to be done (or just set the fee really high to always get it through).

Once I get more of the Android client going (it's getting harder to get time :() I'll publish the algorithm that's needed to calculate the "proper" fee, ideally alongside the litecoind code so that it's easier to validate.

So... in short.

Litecoin client-side being brought to Android / Java.
Litecoin server-side being patched-together sufficiently to serve client.
Litecoin servers brought up by donors

This is what is great about the open source community.

I love open source... 8)

this is one of those ideas i've had that just never came to fruition. i will have to concede defeat for now.