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Re: [ANN] Signatum - New Algorithm - Fair Launch - No Premine - Cryptopia
by
MarcusDe
on 31/07/2017, 13:44:57 UTC
Yes, maybe sometimes they just take an open source code and REWORK IT, but that is like tuning a car. Using their time and knowledge.

They sell their knowledge, like lawyers do for example. Nobody is forced to buy their reworked software.

Only, the license of that Open Source code-base expressively FORBIDS not distributing the derivate work's source code.

Open Source doesn't mean "take it and do whatever you want". It means "take it and do with it whatever the license allows you to". Otherwise, it's simply theft. Certainly no one is going to sue him, but that's the same as stealing from a baby. Baby ain't gonna shoot you but you literally stole.

I dont' know about ccminer, but sgminer has it's own code, and opencl kernel files.
If he supplies his own kernel file, nothing in the miner source has to be changed.

sgminer is under the GPL ...

the kernel binaries are the developers work ( which is why wolf0 can sell his binaries and NOT break the GPL code ) ...

ccminer is under GPL ... which means it 'should' only be redistributed WITH its source code ... not compiled and SOLD to make money from it WITHOUT its source being redistributed also ... thats fine if you want to break the GPL license - but not so good if you want to show everyone that you are doing it - THEN yell out and complain that someone else is stealing 'YOUR' code ... thats just plain wrong ...

#crysx

Tell about GPL to sp_ (who is asking for money for his binaries) and all others, I didn't see any skunkhash 'algo' code except orginal https://github.com/tpruvot/ccminer :-D

BTW, rules here won't allow you to give coins, but you can charge for miner code? LOL