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[–] spartanatreyu@programming.dev -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

the dev deliberately changed the license to his source code to prevent forks

The licence is a creative commons licence and hasn't been changed in 11 months.

I'm not sure what you're talking about

[–] freeman@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives

You tell us.

[–] spartanatreyu@programming.dev 2 points 16 hours ago

Looks like you can't distribute a modified version of the project (e.g. a fork), but it wouldn't stop anyone contributing to or distributing a separate project that users could run locally to patch duckstation's build process where they can now build it on and for their own machines.

A build patch wouldn't contain any copyrighted material, so anyone could contribute and distribute it.

Ironic considering that's how many emulator get around legal issues. Emulators distribute virtual machines, but they don't distribute the copyrighted material.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

Well, that's tough then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯