So let me get this straight.....
chipless steals code, and by proxy money directly from fudds pockets for something he has earned by putting the work in
then gets indignant when called out about it
and is now threatening things like an angry teenager on an internet rampage
Chipless...you do realize you are 100% in the wrong? Wait why am I asking, you know you are or you wouldnt have removed the link...
You have lost this battle so badly you have nothing left to hang on to other than some empty threats, if I was you I would be so embarrassed I would never post again.
LOL... No I didn't steal his code I disabled part of it and put it back out in the same exact package he had it in. I never took a penny from any dev fee.... I'm not embarrassed at all. The link was removed and will be replaced with an alternate option for users.
You and fudd are missing some parts that fudd don't want to recognize under the GPL …. It was illegal for him to release the firmware in the beginning period....
He has no rights distribute the firmware unless he follows the GPL of the original package.
The license covers of 100% of the package he started with. Which clearly states if he redistributes the GPL'd work in the package as a complete package then he must follow the GPL and can not add additional terms to the package that exceed the GPL, but if he would have separated his stuff from the package and distributed it differently it wouldn't matter. He can argue all he wants copyright but he at most has copyleft rights which allows me to do what I did. He is restricted from distributing the package commercially unless he follows the GPL, maybe I will just file a takedown on him since he don't want to follow the GPL and is illegally distributing the package.
Read on it here or elsewhere the info is the same
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License"The distribution rights granted by the GPL for modified versions of the work are not unconditional. When someone distributes a GPL'd work plus their own modifications, the requirements for distributing the whole work cannot be any greater than the requirements that are in the GPL."
"Copyleft applies only when a person seeks to redistribute the program. Developers may make private modified versions with no obligation to divulge the modifications, as long as they do not distribute the modified software to anyone else. Note that copyleft applies only to the software, and not to its output (unless that output is itself a derivative work of the program)"
"By contrast, pipes, sockets and command-line arguments are communication mechanisms normally used between two separate programs.
So when they are used for communication, the modules normally are separate programs. But if the semantics of the communication are intimate enough, exchanging complex internal data structures, that too could be a basis to consider the two parts as combined into a larger program."cgminer is open source and he is combining his code in memory to cgminer making it 1 larger program. I can go on but there is no reason to and fudd needs to suck it up and accept what happens with his releases where he used the Bitmain firmware as his base. He needs to create a new base to work from or follow the license of the package he started with. He started with someone elses work and so will I regardless of his claim, maybe he should take his own advice and build the whole package from scratch then he cant whine.