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DuckStation Creator Considers Shutting Down Emulator Amid License Change (www.retronews.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/retrogaming
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

And that't the crux of the issue. Stenzek doesn't actually understand the reality of licensing.

The reality is this - you can't do anything without a lawyer. Laweyrs cost money (pro bono isn't a thing in the copyright world AFAIK, but IANAL).

If he wanted to avoid this, then maybe he should've kept it closed source from the beginning. Chinese sellers on AliExpress couldn't care less about licensing anyway, so that way he'd have at least some protection.

IMO his course of action so far has been wrong.

What he should've done is this:

  1. Cause a stir
  2. Get support from the community
  3. Open up donations for the project (or just himself, since you don't want a repeat of Yuzu)

He could even go after Arcade1up legally if he raised funds, but that's not even worth the time if you ask me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

100% agreed. Nobody’s going to care about someone stealing his source code if they don’t know about it.