PlayStation 1 emulator DuckStation changes license for no commercial use and no derivatives
PlayStation 1 emulator DuckStation changes license for no commercial use and no derivatives
There's been a bit of a furore in the emulation community lately centred around the PlayStation 1 emulator DuckStation, which has now seen two license changes recently.
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/25267065
I'm fine with the former, the latter should be "no derivatives that attempt to relicense for commercial use".
Saying "no forks" is as anti-OSS as you get really, short of hiding all the code under your mattress ala MSFT.
The problem from the article is that the GPL was violated and somewhere downstream the user demanded they fix something to upstream. Being that downstream has modification without being published (my assumption on the GPL violation, either found due to inconsistent bug reproduction or other), the author is understandably upset.
does no derivatives mean i can't press "fork" in its github page..? lmao that's pretty anti-foss
If it's on GitHub you are always allowed to press fork; it's baked into GitHub ToS.
You may or may not have rights to modify that fork or create any releases or other types of distribution from it.