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@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. 3 comments
@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. @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. |
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@chris I've since done further research. I'll just post links, not in order:
https://preview.redd.it/ppr5tl7ns9f81.jpg?width=2605&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3915af28a2e9426b9c1bbc8a7e632d6a8671dcdc
https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/si2v5s/duckstation_now_officially_dead_github_repository/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-iRW7BAoOU
https://web.archive.org/web/20221018151339/https://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sruqo3
https://www.libretro.com/index.php/category/swanstation/
https://github.com/libretro/swanstation
https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroArch/comments/no50r1/duckstation_vs_swanstation/
Stenzek was worried about others commercialising DuckStation; if it were me, I'd be honoured, but hey.
I run my own projecct, Libreboot, that I even sell, but I also have competitors. I compete by being better than them, while remaining libre.
@chris I've since done further research. I'll just post links, not in order:
https://preview.redd.it/ppr5tl7ns9f81.jpg?width=2605&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3915af28a2e9426b9c1bbc8a7e632d6a8671dcdc
https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/si2v5s/duckstation_now_officially_dead_github_repository/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-iRW7BAoOU