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Creator Of PS1 Emulator DuckStation Threatens To "Shut The Whole Thing Down" Following License Change
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i would too tbh
he's just changed it to a Creative Commons licence that prohibits packaging and selling of the emulator, nothing that anybody outside of people selling dodgy romsets online are going to need to worry about
Creative Commons licenses aren't suitable for software and applying them like that is an extremely bad behaviour.
Could you elaborate on that? I'm not up to date on FOSS / open source licensing.
From Creative Commons FAQ:
Huh! I had no idea. Thank you!
Yes but the licences are compatible, so you can dual license it under both. Just say code is GPL and everything else (eg documentation, images, etc) is CC BY-SA
The licence thats he's switched to is CC BY-NC-ND. It does not allow modifications. The ND in BY-NC-ND means "No derivatives". It's just so stupid, he should've gone with GPLv3.
So the project is just source available?
Kind of, yes.
And Linux distro maintainers, Flatpak, and libretro and a lot of other projects that rely on repackaging or integrating the code in a bigger project.
Even NVIDIA has a more flexible license that at least lets distros bundle it in the repositories.