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[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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 ๐Ÿค”~~

Bonus ๐Ÿคก-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:

I have the approval of prior contributors, and if I did somehow miss you, then please advise me so I can rewrite that code. I didn't spend several weekends rewriting various parts for no reason.

It's odd they didn't mention that in the commit where they changed the license.

๐Ÿฅ‚ to whoever carries on development of the last GPL version, and/or develops other free software emulators. and ๐ŸคŒ to people continuing to contribute to this one after it became non-free.

[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago

Somehow I doubt that all of the other contributors actually agreed to that license change ๐Ÿค”

It seems he did in fact get their permission, and rewrote code he couldn't relicense

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