Why did you merge in code Auroracoin does not have the license to?
The following is taken directly from src/checkpointsync.cpp:
Does Auroracoin not respect the copyright owned by developers of different coins?
If you have received permission, why does the header not reflect this?
The license for Feathercoin was a special one which is why it is not transferable. We paid Sunny to do the implementation in Feathercoin and he granted us a special license where we did not have to include any copyright notices for Peercoin. The COPYING file from Peercoin copied in below is a bit different.
Apologies for the confusion I created over this. Auroracoin and others are well within their rights to use automatic checkpointing.
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