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Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

@chris "Stealing" reveals a very closed minded attitude toward the world. I prefer to think that all work is derivative, and that we stand on the shoulders of giants. So when a piece of previously free and open source software becomes proprietary, that concerns me.

How much work did Stenzek base his own on, directly or indirectly? Did he learn all that he knows in a vacuum? Or did he get such knowledge from many sources?

Perhaps you can own your expression of an idea but the idea is not yours.

14 September at 8:56 | Open on mas.to
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Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot
Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

@chris Interesting; look at the screenshot. This is from running "git shortlog -sne" on duckstation.git (master branch).

Quite a number of authors, and most of the commits aren't even Stenzek.

Therefore, Stenzek is violating the GPL.

I will be doing further auditing, and probably getting in contact with Stenzek myself in due course.

EDIT: I realised Connor Mclaughlin is stenzek. There are still many authors though, whose copyright is being violated.
14 September at 10:14 | Open on mas.to
Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

@chris In other words, the Android app that Stenzek releases, is illegal and could be removed from the Google App store. This is because, for the Android version of DuckStation, Stenzek is withholding the source code even though most of the code in duckstation.git does not belong to him, and was provided under GPLv3 - so, not providing source is copyright infringement.

Someone should report the Android app. A fork is needed; SwanStation for example is a fork of DuckStation and part of libretro.

14 September at 10:21 | Open on mas.to
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