I understand both arguments here. Basically would creating a "branch" of the prior GPL'd code be acceptable. I fully understand the reasons why the license would specifically say non-commercial and still be open source.
Developers have put a lot of effect and time into improving the original code. I guess they just don't want it to be ripped off by someone who would sell it without providing any source, i.e. SNESoid and numerous other emulators on android. Many developers work for the fun and to contribute to the open source community, it's a kick in the backside when they get ripped off and someone profits from their work. It's easy to say just sue they for violating a license but who has the money to do that, certainly not a single young developer. Maybe there's a better license to put this project under but so many are GPL incompatible. Anyway that's my two cents. On Aug 8, 11:05 am, "J.D. T." <[email protected]> wrote: > http://code.google.com/p/genplus-gxis now under the non commercial > mame license. It should be removed as it's not longer in tune with > open source philosophy. > > The project was GNU GPL but upstream made the switch leaving > downstream developers no choice but to relicense to in order to be > able to reuse the code from newer versions. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Hosting on Google Code" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en.
