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This developer appears to have accepted contributions from over 100 other people prior to having a change of heart about the GPL and ~~unilaterally~~ switching the project to a non-free license (CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives).
~~Somehow I doubt that all of the other contributors actually agreed to that license change ๐ค~~
Bonus ๐คก-points for making a bunch of unrelated changes to source code in the "Misc: Update copyright headers" commit.
edit: i stand corrected, thanks to @LiveLM@lemmy.zip i see the developer wrote:
It's odd they didn't mention that in the commit where they changed the license.
๐ฅ to whoever carries on development of the last GPL version, and/or develops other free software emulators. and ๐ค to people continuing to contribute to this one after it became non-free.
It seems he did in fact get their permission, and rewrote code he couldn't relicense