The idea however is not to seperate the community but work together.I would be interested to know about this too. I was discussing this with @smooth the other day. The code is licensed so you need permission to create your own coin. But what about forking the existing code? If the license prevents users from doing this then I would argue it's not really censorship resistant. I would like to hear from @ned or @dan about this.
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Not necessarily. You could create your own coin on the steem blockchain (as well as your own rewards system) without a hardfork.
Because the steem blockchain allows you to sumbit and vote on arbitrary data, it allows you to potentially nest other blockchains inside of it, like one of those russian dolls.
Good idea.
Okay, got it. But I think it's possible to fork the underlying code, else Golos wouldn't have appeared.
I am not exactly sure about the details but the steem team made a deal with golos which is why they were allowed to fork the code.
Oh, okay; thanks.
It is possible, but only with steemit incs express written permission (which golos had).
Its somewhat debatable how enforceable this license provision is though.