You don't have a legal right for libnss_mdsn_minimal.so.2 to deny me the rights to use or make changes lgcm is directly related to
the other file and cgminer in a roundabout way so they are also part of it all.
You may not agree and at this point I said I will not debate anymore on the matter and will await your Federal Court Order to pul it
back down or destroy it. Any further harassment from you for the use withuot a Federal Court Order could result in civil legals actions
against you.
If it makes you happy I did take a word of advice from you, I had a legal team look at the factory firmware, yours, and the one I did
to come to the following conclusions.
Conclusion 1:
Since you changed the original file libnss_mdsn_minimal.so.2 that was copyrighted and LGPL'd deleting it and replacing it with a file
the same name regardless of the contents or whether is was being used or not is considered a modification of the library package
which is copyrighted and LGPL licensed. The change in contents under the law and license is a modification and the copyright and license cant be side stepped the way you are trying to.
Under the LGPL license you must allow others to use that file now for free of charge, supply the source code and object files
for the file libnss_mdsn_minimal.so.2 and to allow modifications. Failure to do so puts you in violation of the origional
creators copyrights and LGPL license terms. Which you are already in violation of because you failed to notify users the library
package is no longer the origional files and modifications have been made.
The file lcgm legally under LGPL's linking terms to libnss_mdsn_minimal.so.2 makes it become one bigger program.
Your claim to obfusicate the contents with that name is irrelevent to the situation, the facts show you used the LGPL'd library
package file to create a modification of the library.
Package Data
Package: libnss-mdns
Version: 0.10-r7.0
Description: libnss-mdns version 0.10-r7
NSS module for Multicast DNS name resolution
Section: libs
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Angstrom Developers <
[email protected]>
License: LGPLv2.1+
Architecture: armv7ahf-vfp-neon
OE: libnss-mdns
Homepage:
http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-mdns/Depends: avahi-daemon, libc6 (>= 2.17)
Source:
http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-mdns/nss-mdns-0.10.tar.gzPackage Included files
/lib/libnss_mdns6_minimal.so.2
/lib/libnss_mdns.so.2
/lib/libnss_mdns6.so.2
/lib/libnss_mdns4_minimal.so.2
/lib/libnss_mdns_minimal.so.2 ------ File you are trying to claim copyright on
/lib/libnss_mdns4.so.2
Conclusion 2:
You have no claim to DMCA violations as stated in 17 U.S. Code §1201 Circumvention of copyright protection systems:
"if the circumventor obtains access to the copyrighted material through a copyright owner-sponsored method, even if that access is illegally obtained, the circumventor is merely bypassing permission of the copyright owner and does not violate the DMCA"
Your owner-sponsored method was used in my modification. I did not have to do anything to decrypt the files, where it has been ruled by the courts that if there is no encryption then there is no violation. You also released it to the public I did not have to obtain it illegally.
Conclusion 3
Under the copyright laws "Fair Use" provisions I may claim "Transformative Use" which is allowed without your permission and not in violation of the claimed copyrighted files. You may view for some details but not all Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, 510 U.S. 569.
Under 17 U.S. Code §117 Sub. D, any person may use the code for maintnance or repair, in this case to set cgminer back to a fully free
program which is factory specs. It already had overclocking so that part doesnt matter in this situation. Only thing here you can do is
file for me to destroy the copy, and my defense would be that I cant just make a copy from the machine thru it's normal operation. When in a situation like that the copy does not have to be destroyed always.
Conclusion 4
You cannot claim a loss in revenue since you thanked me for increasing your user base which is an increase in profit and not a loss. It would be hard now to go into court and change your mind, any losses now cannot be proven to be directly related to what I released since there was an increase in users and not a decrease.
Conclusion 5
You are in violation of Bitmain copyrights and cannot claim a violation while you are in violation yourself. Some files are copyrighted by Bitmain and not open source they do clearly notify the users at the bottom of the screen with the copyright symbol. I have verification and the emails between Bitmain and myself clearly stating the copyrights status. The current license status file shipped with cgminer in the firmware package is marked as "Closed" other files have their own copyright and licenses.