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DuckStation GPL Violation - Leah Rowe's Sleepless Rants (vimuser.org)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I think the bigger issue is the copyright violation. You can't just take others code and change the license. That's not how it works.

Also I fail to see how the license is related to someone's identity. Obviously it is never appropriate to harass anyone on any grounds. (including questionable licensing changes) However, they could of just stepped down or reached out to the bigger community for support.

Using fire to put out fire is not really effective. If retroarch people are actually harassing then they should not be a part of retro arch any longer. If the project us having issues then it needs new leadership. Discrimination never is good for a project. If the community needs to boycott retroarch so be it

[–] moonpiedumplings 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I think the bigger issue is the copyright violation. You can't just take others code and change the license. That's not how it works.

Stenzek did not do this. He either got permission to change the license of gpl pieces from their original author, or rewrote them. The edit by Leah in her post fails to acknowledge this, but it should be noted that she states the situation has a lot more nuance, and that she is trying to convince steznek to keep duckstation free software, rather thab threatening legal action against him.

reached out to the bigger community for support.

Like Near/Byuu did? And how did that go?

Although, I do agree, and I would rather have free software. But it's clear that Duckstation going proprietary is his attempt to boycott the retroarch developers.

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

Check the git commits