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So they kind of stole the idea from him? It's a serious copyright issue
$10 says they just copy his mod code, refactoring & obfuscate it, then sell it as remastered
That'd be a Nintendo reference, yes? Though I think somebody else stole Wine code and was caught. No huge consequences obviously.
WINE is open source, so it's not stealing to use it
Wrong, FOSS is not the same as PD.
Still need to include where you got it from. Else it's like copying a degree thesis aka plagiarism.