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TL;DR the dev behind Duckstation arbitrary changed the license and is likely commiting GPL violations

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[โ€“] tabular@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I hope forgetting the contributors's code was an honest mistake. Unless there's a CLA I'm not aware of.

[โ€“] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There was no CLA. The duckstation dev rewrote all gpl code, or obtained permission to change the license.