Re: ANTMINER S3 Discussion and Support Thread.

Hi BITMAIN.

As you're an official representative of bitmain, may I ask you to please provide the source code for your modifications to cgminer in the form of the driver for the S3. cgminer is provided under the GPL version 3 license which means you are obliged by law to provide the source code to any modifications you do if you distribute binaries and you are distributing modified cgminer binaries with every S3.

Provision of the source code would allow us to aid the development of your driver and help bring your version to sync up with the latest cgminer to derive the benefits of newer versions along with its many fixes.

Thank you for this post. I hope Bitmain will capitulate as expected. It is morally the right thing to do on their part.

It's more than morally right; it's legally required.

Although it isn't clear what recourse this community (or anyone) would have against a Chinese company that doesn't comply with the GPL. Hopefully it won't come to that...

The legal part is a given; I already got that. I was just trying to appeal to Bitmain's morality. I hope they still have an ounce left and not completely overwhelmed by capitalism, i.e. profit and greed.