Seedi console on IndieGogo

[FinalBaton]

Looks like that Seedi console project on IndieGoGo is breaking emulator licenses (what a surprise...).

They asked permission to the Libretro team and got told "No", and still went ahead, basically telling them to go fuck themselves :

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sq72ra

[soprano1]

Spread the news, i guess. No surprise there, but i'm amazed they even asked in the first place.

[FinalBaton]

Spread the news, i guess. No surprise there, but i'm amazed they even asked in the first place.

No surprise indeed

[null1024]

On one hand, if you distribute under the GPL, you are granting people the right to sell your work, modified or not. This is a deliberate feature of the GPL. As long as the non-commercial cores are stripped, they're 100% in the clear. Really, it's as cut-and-dry as selling a computer pre-loaded with Linux.
Many other popular source licenses protect far less from this sort of thing [and license popularity matters for copyleft licenses, since it defines the size of the pool of code you can draw from others], and the GPL at least sets some ground rules.
Like, read it, it's not as maddeningly dense as a lot of license text, except around the bits about patents. IANAL and all that though, but it lays out a fairly simple set of rules regarding distribution. You can distribute for-profit, as long as source is available and as long as you can get modified versions running in place of the commercial release [eg, as part of a hardware setup].

On the other hand, there's no point in supporting something that goes against the developers' wishes, particularly since you can literally just do the installation yourself onto your computer or a RasPi or whatever. No point in buying some "emulation box" from someone who's effectively just a middleman putting it in a fancy package. I guess this has the benefit of having an optical drive?

also, is it really named the "seedi" lol
is it supposed to sound like "seedy" and CD at the same time?

[ZellSF]

Spread the news, i guess. No surprise there, but i'm amazed they even asked in the first place.

Are you amazed they asked because you think they should've known the answer was no? Or because you think they were trying to do the right thing initially? Wild speculation, but I think this line implies otherwise:

Thank you - I wanted a crystal clear answer and got it.

I will not be doing anything that sells your work.

I hope that if Sigma ends up including RetroArch you are able to go after them.

It just makes me think the original plan was to get permission, then try to get RetroArch developers to go after their competition.

[Obiwanshinobi]

also, is it really named the "seedi" lol
is it supposed to sound like "seedy" and CD at the same time?

Reminds me of the amusement arose when a Polish computer games mag called CD-Action happened to be the first one to publish a Killzone 3 review.