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Creator Of PS1 Emulator DuckStation Threatens To "Shut The Whole Thing Down" Following License Change
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this post was submitted on 24 Sep 2024
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One thing I'm missing in all this, did the dude change the license from GPL without the other contributors express permission? That on itself would be a massive violation of the GPL
He says he has had permission. Given that it's a mostly 1 person project it's possibly true.
The repo alone has 114 contributors, and that's assuming no one copied code from any other project. It's not that small.
A lot of contributors of FOSS projects make small changes that aren't copyrightable.