Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] GPL and “All rights r eserved”

[Aljosha Papsch]

Am 01.06.2013 15:32, schrieb Ineiev:
> On 06/01/2013 01:58 PM, Aljosha Papsch wrote:
>> [0] https://savannah.gnu.org/task/index.php?12640
> 
>  says:
> 
>> ASIC/FPGA mining (primary use) has no such limitations.
> 
> Out of curiosity: I wonder whether anything that depends
> on FPGA may qualify as free software system.
> 
Can you elaborate? I was under the impression that, as stated by the
submitter, the ZTEX FPGA driver is free software, therefore the primary
mining method can be done with free software alone. Or am I wrong? I'm
not familiar with Bitcoin mining at all.