Quote from: Cartol on January 14, 2018, 10:05:42 PM

Quote from: Bajula on January 14, 2018, 09:46:10 PM

Quote from: stangerm2 on January 14, 2018, 08:33:11 PM

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Disclaimer: I'm nothing even remotely close to a lawyer, just went and read the GPL - i might have missed some things. and JUST took my first sip of coffee.

Sorry mate but you're dead wrong.

Here's a simple version of the GPL https://tldrlegal.com/license/gnu-general-public-license-v3-(gpl-3) for those of you who aren't involved in anything open-source or legal. Pretty clear cut.

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but by doing what you are about to do you will make him cease to work on updating/fixing stuff and in the future not have the desire to share anything that he fixes for himself

Yep that's probably what's going to happen. You fuckers are so greedy to make 1$ more that everyone else, you don't care about supporting crypo you just want to make money. Guess what, everyone has D3's and if everyone's work better it's no different than if they all worked shitty. No one stands to gain from a system of hidden code to protect the financial interest of the few. We might as well just give up and go back to big banks for that.

Thanks for the tl;dr version

Got coffee in me now too btw

I knew I had a good chance to be wrong on the letter of the "law" there which is why all the disclaimer bit. I assume the part that fits here is the All code linked with GPL 3.0 source code must be disclosed under a GPL 3.0 compatible license bit? and yeah that is much clearer.
I disagree with the "you fuckers" you is pretty general there - and what few this is pretty publicly available, though I get what you mean by if all d3's come out increased in hashrate then same situation as before.. but lower hashrate and increased profit (by way of using less electricity) does A) no more harm to crypto than bitmain releasing too many of a machine did.. in fact it lessens the impact. and B) makes it where the people who bought them can get more out of them. side note: if bitmain released very few of a machine it would only benefit the few anyway.. just sayin' - on to supporting crypto altruistically.. is that really what you are doing? the coins are economy driven, so.. there is like money involved in there somewhere. If you want to support crypto AND make a buck what is wrong with that? again just sayin' Did you install the firmware? Do you mine for free? Do you give all your coins to charity? Would you expect someone in a different field to be as altruistic? - hey that's cool if you do.. but most people won't EVER be like that. Not that they aren't good people and want the best for others (like blissz could have made the firmware for himself and just never released it to anyone but -I do not know this for sure- I'm betting he thought hey let's share this to help people recoup from the plummet) anyway forgot what I was saying. *rofl* maybe still not enough coffee.

i bet he is using the software aswell. and bites the hand which is feeding him.
in my opinion its even better we can mine with less power usage from the ecological point of view.

is it possible to implement another miner, which is not under GPL?

you would have to write it from scratch not using ANY thing that was under the gpl. much wailing and gnashing of teeth.