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maintaining an open-source game emulator has really perverse incentives. users do not care whether your code is good or clean or properly tested. if a horrible hack gets a popular game running, they will plagiarise your WIP patch, make their own build of it, and distribute both…

…at which point it becomes very tempting to just move to a completely closed development model, where we only publish code that is complete enough to land on trunk. and already we are like half of the way there with touchHLE, but it's tempting to go all in. perverse incentives!

@hikari uh. what?

@hikari I think I'm not clear on what you mean by "plagiarizing", since usually that would imply copying?

@hikari the distinction between "copyright", "moral rights", and "author's rights" are largely philosophical; the actual practical distinctions are fairly nuanced, and tend to come down to limitations on what rights can be transferred or sublicensed

@hikari you could maybe consider relicensing to GPLv3 (as explicitly allowed by the MPL 2.0) and exercising the GPLv3 clause that allows "Prohibiting misrepresentation of the origin of that material, or requiring that modified versions of such material be marked in reasonable ways as different from the original version"?

@hikari Aren’t you in Germany isn’t that one of the countries where you can’t give away your moral rights

@saagar yes but that doesn't give me DMCA takedown powers

@hikari I thought you hated those powers

@saagar depends who wields them and for what purpose