Quote from: windpath on August 12, 2014, 02:40:06 AM

Quote from: ckolivas on August 11, 2014, 10:01:14 PM

Quote from: BITMAIN on June 30, 2014, 12:04:25 PM

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.

Really hope you get a reply this time...

Well the GPL is a license that has to be respected in the benefit of all of us, that includes Bitmain, since it is thanks to the GPL that Bitmain can use the software just like all of us. The GPL is a very well designed license, it was created by Richard Stallman from the GNU foundation, Richard in the early 80's could visualize stuff we were completely blind at the time, my full respect for Richard Stallman this is a person we should all listen to.