With Charles McDonald (http://cgfm2.emuviews.com/), original author of genesis plus, we indeed decided to change the license in order to:
1) make it compatible with parts of the code (namely, CPU and Sound cores) that were copyrighted by other people and licensed under a MAME- similar license 2) prohibit the use of our hard work in commercial projects, especially on Android and Cydia repository, where GPL initial goals are clearly not respected anymore, simply because this license is not adapted to this new way of distributing software. Basically, it came to our attention that people were straight using my work in genesis plus gx to make money on these markets, which, despite they claimed to respect the GPL license, I found unacceptable, considering that people getting app from their phone are not going to bother with GPL mentions anyway and that if money should ever have been made from these, it should have been given to the ones who actually put real efforts in developing and improving this emulator during all these years, not to some wannabe business man who quickly grabbed the code and ported it to android/ios using an universal framework (to optimize development/profits with multiple emulator ports). Anyway, I don't plan to change the license back as I feel utterly depressing and unmotivating to see my 6-years work being used to make money by other people and the same people basically laughing at my face with the GPL argument when all we were asking was respect of our wishes and the initial goals of this project, i.e education and knowledge sharing. With all the respect I have (or had) for GPL, those people are never going to improve this code, all they are going to do is take profit out of it and update it when I add features on googlecode. I didn't know that GoogleCode policy implied that "open-source" equals "GPL license" or that a non-commercial disclosure was against your terms. If this is indeed the case, my only solution is to remove this project from here, find another place for hosting or simply abandon this project as what started as a hobby activity is now turning into a stressing and pointless battle against open-source defenders/ profiters. That's said, this leave me a bad taste in mouth as I don't understand the need for people to hunt projects like mine as if they were "outlaws" here when we are sharing the sourcecode to anyone for FREE and clearly doing our best to share knowledge and help people, which I thought was the initial goal of googlecode. Good luck at kicking all the snes-9x ports from googlecode as well, in my opinion, you are more losing than winning anything. -- 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.
