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Seems fair to me, this is their ball they made themself and they weren’t having fun anymore so they went home and took it with them. Don’t really see the issue besides some vague entitlement to a fork of their work
They didn't make it themselves, the project has a not-insignificant amount of contributions from other authors, and the repo owner (possibly illegally) relicensed it such that nobody else can legally fork it.
Aren't license changes only applicable to forward development? Like if the project was GPL up until state Y, then switches to something else, that license only applies to ∆Y?
Yes. They did the relicensing a year ago, so that's a decently sized delta.
Just fucking crib it anyways and either play dumb or threaten him to sue. He won't. IP laws shouldn't be respected anyways.
Agreed on the first half, it's unfair to expect someone to continue volunteering their time to work on something if they don't enjoy it. I don't understand what you mean by "vague entitlement to a fork of their work" though? It's not like stenzek has to do any work if someone else forked DuckStation to continue supporting Linux on their own. What people want is the freedom to use, modify, and distribute code for the benefit of everyone. Presumably as a member of this website's community you are opposed to private property, how is restricting people's freedom with proprietary code any different?