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DuckStation Creator Considers Shutting Down Emulator Amid License Change (www.retronews.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Not what I am arguing, but we do have two issues: 1) naming/branding for these types of licenses 2) FOSS banshees acting like these licenses aren’t acceptable & the whole idea is binary good or evil

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

As long as we don't call them free, libre, or open source I don't care. We shouldn't make the terminology any more confusing for those.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There’s limited vocab to choose from & source available isn’t an appealing one

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah, it definitely is more appealing from a marketing perspective.

I do understand why some projects might wanna use the term, it's to their advantage to be associated with "open source" even if the source code itself has a proprietary license.

The problem is that then it makes it harder / more confusing to check for actually openly licensed code, since then it's not clear what term to use. Already "free software" can be confused with "free as in free beer".

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