Steve Troughton-Smith

My advice to newcomers: never open-source something you wouldn't be happy to see somebody else clone, rebrand, and resell.

If you want to open source cool things, open source the parts and components that will help other people build their own amazing apps with. Not full products.

It doesn’t really matter what license you pick, because the only people who will actually adhere to it are the bigger companies with legal advisors

Apr 15, 2024 at 7:36pmIvory for Mac
Show threadJosh Apr 15, 2024
@stroughtonsmith i find that that makes it easier to convince the powers that be at work to let you open source stuff also
Show threadErnesto MonasterioApr 15, 2024

@stroughtonsmith If this is still about GBA4iOS/Delta, then, sadly, there’s no way he could’ve used another license.

GPL is infectious by nature. Projects derivative of other GPL projects inherit their license.

Sometimes you don’t get to pick the license, so I guess it’s a matter of “picking your fights”, or designing software in a modular-enough fashion to keep some parts of it closed, if you really wanna be protective of it.

Show threadNoel WallingApr 15, 2024
@stroughtonsmith “But they stole my (open source) software” cries the person enabling the theft of (not open source) software. 🙄
Show threadTaylor HaddenApr 19, 2024

@Noelwalling @stroughtonsmith Emulation is not piracy.

Piracy is not theft.

Show threadNoel WallingApr 19, 2024
@taylorhadden @stroughtonsmith Emulation is not. Distribution of others’ work for free or for profit is absolutely theft, as Riley found out when he complained that someone ripped off his open source emulator. A wildly ironic twist of fate.
Show threadTaylor HaddenApr 20, 2024
@Noelwalling @stroughtonsmith Given that we’re both part of the industry being impinged upon, I don’t want to get overly pedantic. I just don’t think “theft” is the right word for copyright infringement.