• spartanatreyu@programming.dev
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    3 months ago

    the dev deliberately changed the license to his source code to prevent forks

    The licence is a creative commons licence and hasn’t been changed in 11 months.

    I’m not sure what you’re talking about

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        3 months ago

        Looks like you can’t distribute a modified version of the project (e.g. a fork), but it wouldn’t stop anyone contributing to or distributing a separate project that users could run locally to patch duckstation’s build process where they can now build it on and for their own machines.

        A build patch wouldn’t contain any copyrighted material, so anyone could contribute and distribute it.

        Ironic considering that’s how many emulator get around legal issues. Emulators distribute virtual machines, but they don’t distribute the copyrighted material.