People add a GPL license to make sure it stays 'free', but in this case as has been talked about multiple times, it's perfectly legal for big companies or farms to modify it and use it internally without distributing it to anyone else.
this is not true. You may sell products based on GNU, the obligation is to provide sources of your product upon request.
Yup, and if you continued to read my post you would've seen I addressed that point. What happens when he open sources his private bins that include speed increases? Pretty self explanatory. At least right now you have people redistributing his work, not his source code.
sp does open source at least some of his modifications eventually. That's good enough, and he has therefore contributed infinitely more than most of the people whining for him to make everything 'free'. I can't believe he has to endure so many idiots begging for others to leak his stuff in this very thread.
if he stops, mining won't lose anything, just everybody will be in the same condition, and will use open source miners. Some big farms will have less advantages to others.
sp does not provide new unique miners, he just modifies other work
You're a idiot. There are companies that do what you're doing right now only 10,000 times bigger. You're not a unique snowflake. Do you think they employ staff? Do you hire staff?
You know you can hire people like SP and get them on a payroll.
That's neat... And you wouldn't be in this thread begging for SPs miner if you didn't see it making a big difference in how much you make. It's even worse with easy to optimize miners that no one takes time to do because they aren't paid. It took three months of good mining before Equihash was up to snuff on Nvidia hardware and you know who eventually did it? A big company, Nicehash, hired their own internal programmer to work on it.
That's regardless of the amount of pleading, poking, prodding, trying to throw money at people around here I attempted to do. It wasn't a small difference either. It was a order of magnitude difference. 1070s started out at around 22sol and ended at 480. Claymore was on top of his shit because he is PAID to do what he does and does it very well. We don't have a Claymore, the best we have is SP.
'Just' having a miner is pointless if it can't compete with other miners on the market. Although that's a crude way to put it when big farms don't need to put theirs on the market. So unless you intend to learn CUDA and compete with SP you can take your GPL threats and shove them.
No one is EVER in the same 'condition' here. All it is, is an illusion that you think you know what's going on.
I covered all of this if you read my original response.