Supporting a handful of miners that further violate license does not. His pool - his choice.
There is no "further", violation is violation, if both Bitmain and Vnish were taken to court for refusing to release the code, will vnish be fined a higher amount than Bitmain? NO.
The as-shipped part means absolutley NOTHING as far as cgimner license is concerned.
With that being said, I agree that it is his pool and he can run it how he wants to, nobody can stop him from doing so, although that doesn't't change the fact that he conveniently "ignores" the violation by Bitmain and MicroBT to continue running his pool and to make profit out of license violation.
Sir, you are clearly not in the mood for constructive dialogue.
He never is, unless you suck up to him for everything he does/thinks - he will call you either stupid or a scumbag, ::)the other "scumbag" devs stopped replying to him due to his attitude, and anyone in their right mind should simply ignore him IMO.