PSPGBA Copying Code from VisualBoy Advance!

[Alpha]

PSPGBA is a new Game Boy Advance emulator for the Sony PSP. Forgotten from NGEmu has found that the source code from PSPGBA uses code from Visual Boy Advance which violates the GPL. So what we of course did was look for it, and unfortunately we found it!

 

 

10.  If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free programs whose distribution conditions are different, write to the author to ask for permission. For software which is copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation, write to the Free Software Foundation; we sometimes make exceptions for this. Our decision will be guided by the two goals of preserving the free status of all derivatives of our free software and of promoting the sharing and reuse of software generally.

EDIT: Apparently, this may be invalid until we get the author's response.

 

"Unsupported VisualBoyAdvance save game version %d"

 

This can be out of context so it uses the same format for save-games as VBA does.

 

»» PSPGBA Information

»» VisualBoy Advance Homepage

»» General Public License (GPL) Information

»» Original NGEmu Thread

 

Thanks to moomoo on #ngemu and AEP-Emu for notifying me about this.

[Robert]

That message is taken out of context. It actually says

 

"Unsupported VisualBoyAdvance save game version %d"

 

So it uses the same format for save-games as VBA does. Big deal.

[Alpha]

That message is taken out of context. It actually says

 

"Unsupported VisualBoyAdvance save game version %d"

 

So it uses the same format for save-games as VBA does. Big deal.

Oh boy...

 

I don't know really. You could be right and wrong. The best thing to do is wait for the author's response.

 

EDIT: Updated my first post, thanks robbbert.

[Robert]

If someone can spread the news: PSPGBA is a port of VBA and the GPL license is not being followed. It is very easy to find this: just open the file and search for VisualBoyAdvance. There are lots of other stuff in there, but this is just an easy one.

 

Forgotten

 

He says he has other examples. Let him produce them!

 

The next thing is that PSPGBA has a number of libraries in it, which could also be used by VBA. Similarities of this code is not stealing.

 

Forgotten needs to produce code specific to VBA which has obviously been copied verbatim into PSPGBA.