I assume most FOSS emulators have a non-commercial license, so if a company is using it to make money they are already violating the law, but who is gonna go after Nintendo for that?
If they had that, they’d no longer be FOSS and instead “source available” and half the community will raise the pitch forks. Best FOSS licence to protect against this sort of thing is AGPL because it’s toxic for corporations. But even that could be used in this case if they had the source on the same computer imo (IANAL though)
bitwolf@lemmy.one 5 months ago
I believe they do have their own emulator. It logically would be what powers the Nintendo arcade
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 5 months ago
bitwolf@lemmy.one 5 months ago
Agreed I would totally support emus using a business software license just because of how they’re treated by business.
Float@startrek.website 5 months ago
I assume most FOSS emulators have a non-commercial license, so if a company is using it to make money they are already violating the law, but who is gonna go after Nintendo for that?
socksy@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
If they had that, they’d no longer be FOSS and instead “source available” and half the community will raise the pitch forks. Best FOSS licence to protect against this sort of thing is AGPL because it’s toxic for corporations. But even that could be used in this case if they had the source on the same computer imo (IANAL though)
angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 5 months ago
The thing is, we know Nintendo does have in-house developed emulators that they used for Virtual Console and then NSO and the Classic Edition.
It’s fairly likely they didn’t take the effort to port those to PC for the museum, but still.