From 5e39ccf4321a717102675a54222b3f126e436fd3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luke
Ethereum's publicly available network can be accessed by anyone at any
time, freely without any cost. It can serve as a backbone for
-any open or closed sourced project that requires (but not necessarily)
-the rebustnes of free public peer to peer networks with a consesus
+any open or closed sourced project that may require
+the robustness of free, public peer-to-peer networks with a consensus
backing layer.
-Ethereum may also (freely) be run in a private (corporate) environment
-without any cost, all core source is licensed under the LGPL
+Ethereum may also be run in a private environment, such as for use within a corporate network,
+without any cost. All core source is licensed under the LGPL
and all frontend code is licensed under GPL.
The following builds are build automatically by our build servers after each push to the develop branch. The following builds are built automatically after each push to the develop branch.geth
binary.
Please refer to the developer documentation
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ for a beginner tutorial on how to get started with the Go Ethereum API.
- Development builds
Building geth requires two external dependencies, Go and GMP. +
Building geth requires two external dependencies: Go and GMP. You can install them using your favourite package manager. Once the dependencies are installed, run
@@ -139,8 +139,8 @@ Once the dependencies are installed, run ContributionIf you'd like to contribute to go-ethereum please fork, fix, commit and
-send a pull request. Commits who do not comply with the coding standards
-are ignored (use gofmt!). If you send pull requests make absolute sure that you
+send a pull request. Commits that do not comply with the coding standards
+are ignored (use gofmt!). If you send pull requests, make absolute sure that you
commit on the develop
branch and that you do not merge to master.
Commits that are directly based on master are simply ignored.