DuckStation Creator Considers Shutting Down Emulator Amid License Change
DuckStation Creator Considers Shutting Down Emulator Amid License Change
Gaming enthusiasts face uncertainty as DuckStation's creator threatens closure due to recent licensing issues affecting the emulator.
the license changes were made to deter parties who had violated the previous license [GPL] by not attributing the work and stripping copyright information
That is a violation of the GPL. Changing the license isn't going to stop license violations. It's really unfortunate when software gets into legal hell.
no it isn't. The old versions are still GPL. permission from contributors was attained.
no it isn’t. The old versions are still GPL. permission from contributors was attained.
Stripping copyright information is a violation of the GPL. friend_of_satan meant that. He clearly did not mean changing the license with consent of all contributors.
As much as all of this sucks, the part where they said if this devolves into harassment they'll shut the whole thing down is so valid. Let people enjoy their hobbies.
Someone should fork the last GPL version and pull it into libretro
Can't really see how it's worth anyone else contributing to this version of the project anymore with such a hostile-to-open-source owner
This is FUD
The libretro/retroarch devs are the problem and why the license was changed.
Open source != owned by everyone
I think that was already done a while ago with Swanstation libretro core.
Libretro folks are going to take the code of any maintained emulators anyways, so people don't really need to port it. Also didn't follow any news from Libretro's side, but considering Libretro's founder's past interactions in license changes of emulators the project benefited from, I can't help but wonder if he/she threw a hissing fit at the Duckstation folks as well.