DuckStation Creator Considers Shutting Down Emulator Amid License Change (www.retronews.com)

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[-] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

the license changes were made to deter parties who had violated the previous license [GPL] by not attributing the work and stripping copyright information

That is a violation of the GPL. Changing the license isn't going to stop license violations. It's really unfortunate when software gets into legal hell.

[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

no it isn't. The old versions are still GPL. permission from contributors was attained.

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

no it isn’t. The old versions are still GPL. permission from contributors was attained.

Stripping copyright information is a violation of the GPL. friend_of_satan meant that. He clearly did not mean changing the license with consent of all contributors.

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