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Unfortunately I’m not sure forking is an option. After the SwanStation thing, DuckStation switched to a more restrictive source-available license, and if I’m reading it right I believe that forking would be in violation of the license. This section specifically is what I’m looking at:
I am not a lawyer though so I could be misunderstanding. I do wonder if someone won’t just try forking it anyways regardless of legality.
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If we're already "pirating" games... are we expected to be the kind of people who will submit to an arbitrary set of words in a .txt file to keep us from something?
most of the open source devs do, to an extend. i would not be surprised if some of them took the "only backup of your own games" seriously.
Just do it anyway he says he doesn't make money from it, what's he going to do, sue over his free project