Move from non-commercial to a free license

[Kekun]

Recently MAME switched its license from non-commercial to GPLv2+ with most code being under BSD. This is awesome as it makes it simpler for Linux distributions and other distributors to ship it.

Is there any chance to change PicoDrive's license from non commercial to a free one? BSD, MIT, GPLv2+ or GPLv3+ would be good choices, BSD is probably the simplest of the bunch.

Such a change would imply all the authors to agree on that.

[Oggom]

This has nothing to do with the libretro port and has already been discussed here notaz#32

[Kekun]

@Oggom thanks for the link.

[keithbowes]

I wonder why Mednafen's Genesis emulator wasn't ported along with everything else (even their bsnes fork was, so exists alongside various other bsnes forks). Mednafen's Genesis code is based on an old GPL-licensed version of Genesis Plus GX; the only libretro version of Genesis Plus GX is a new one under a non-commercial license. However, Mednafen's version of Genesis Plus GX might have only handled Genesis/MD games, because according to the documentation, Mednafen uses SMS Plus for SMS and GG games. Blastem is another free core that can do MD, SMS, and to some degree GG, but it's x86/x86_64-only. My only point is that you have free-software options for most of these consoles.

[inactive123]

there is an sms plus libretro core already separate from mednafen.

[keithbowes]

there is an sms plus libretro core already separate from mednafen.

Yeah, that's the one I linked to.