The article says he got permission from people who wrote the code to change the license. If they didn’t give permission then he has rewritten the code.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (13 children)

They usually do this if the project finds out it's being used in some uncouth way and don't want to be tied to whatever that is - limiting their exposure and liability, essentially.

I imagine they found some cheap hardware vendor selling this on their shipped units on Amazon or something and don't want themselves tagged onto a lawsuit about it. Probably got wind of some legal action coming in the future.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (12 children)

More likely it is related to the years of harassment from the transphobe "running" retroarch and his horde of hateful shitheads who harass emulator developers until they work for him. Duckstation is far from the only emulator that has been targeted by this and "Swanstation" has always been incredibly sketchy for a "fork".

If you spend years torturing open source developers, this is what happens. Which... has no real impact on the "legitimate" users but will hopefully bring more eyes to why we actively should not support retroarch and their campaigns of hate. Especially when tools like ES-DE do an amazing job of just scanning for what emulators you have installed and "making it work" without demanding developers make tweaks to support their framework.

[–] SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

Whoa whoa whoa whoa, WHAT? I don't use RetroArch most of the time (I find its UI rather inconvenient), but I had no idea its main developer was transphobic, can you tell me more?

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