It is a GPL-licensed project, forking is allowed. It has since been built up by DarthMew to be competitive in all features. SwanStation is basically the same Libretro core that existed before Stenzek got upset at Piepacker and made a closed source Libretro core instead. Around September was when whatever was said to him was interpreted as a slight and he abandoned the core again.Īt this point, Piepacker seemed to have already abandoned SwanStation and we got handed over the SwanStation repo instead. Fine, we obliged, and we provided this core as well on our buildbot. The catch instead is that he now no longer wanted to provide this core as open source, but as closed source. We took Stenzek's side for about half a year and instead went with his officially approved core. We made it continually clear to Piepacker that we did not wish to be poached or get involved with them in any way, and we have stayed true to that. From what we know, attempts were made by Piepacker to hire Stenzek and those plans fell through. Kivutar was previously a member of Libretro but has not worked on Libretro/RetroArch actively now for years.
We want to make it expressly clear that Libretro/RetroArch is not involved with Piepacker in any way or shape. They raised a Kickstarter for this and raised a lot of money.
(It needs to be made clear that the GPL allows this kind of commercialization, and it is in fact one of the pillars of open source licensing). What upset Stenzek about this core is that apparently kivutar was working for a company called Piepacker that wanted to use DuckStation for commercial purposes. We tried not to address this in public and instead work together again, just like we approached other situations like this where a situation could be resolved.Īround 2021, a fork was created called SwanStation. DuckStation is licensed under the GPL.įor whatever reason, sometimes this relationship was offset by disagreements on Stenzek's side, leading to the core's abandonment. We have had mostly cordial relations with Stenzek now for over two years where a DuckStation core was officially provided.
We will inform you of the DuckStation/SwanStation situation.
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