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Duckstation (PSX emulator) change license from GPL to NON-Commercial [Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International] (github.com)

submitted 2 months ago by alessandro@lemmy.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

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GPL is still a commercial compatible license, something the team behind Duckstation, apparently, don't like.

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[–] azdle@news.idlestate.org 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The repo owner claims to have permission from contributors to relicense (and rewrote some other parts where they couldn't get permission?): https://github.com/stenzek/duckstation/pull/3295#issuecomment-2348988362

I don't really understand the rest of that comment though...

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 7 points 2 months ago

It reads like the usual thing you see with retro gaming types: someone, who probably has all the right in the world to do so, makes their version of something without the original person's name on it, and original dude has a little fit about how they're being denied their due credit or whatever.

Like, not the first time this has happened, and certainly won't be the last time it happens.

Though I doubt he really has the ability to change license on a whim like that, but it also doesn't matter, because it's not like that's retroactive. Just fork it before guy had a fit, and forget he exists, and move on.