Some thoughts on licencing.
Most emulator projects use the #GPL license because their projects are community driven.
You can tell when a project has a company focus in mind by looking at the license.
If the license is a permissive one, like the #BSD or the #MIT, they aim to be taken by a company, so they want to give them as few responsibilities as possible.
When a project is a GPL one, what the project wants to do is to protect the members work by forcing companies to return the code.
@blabber Consumers do not benefit from having the source code closed. They cannot learn, improve or redistribute proprietary software, therefore the only freedom that BSD and MIT provide is the freedom of closing the user's freedom.
Companies do benefit from closing the source code, but users don't.
@downey @blabber yeah, the famous #retroarch project once had the opportunity to collaborate with SEGA, but under the condition of changing the license from GPL3 to MIT.
They explained that they wouldn't do that because other companies had already abused the work of the community without giving back a thing. So in order to protect people's work, copyleft was a requirement.
