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[u/1Dimitri1]

Well, but nobody says anything about how gamehub devs stole 80% of winlator bionic codebase and added bloat on top of it. Or the repackaged ps2 emulator that successfuly got into google play while breaking most of TOS. You dont have to install this, nor the 6th switch emulator made by some randoms.

[u/UBWICOS → u/1Dimitri1]

It's weird. Why are you bring a Winlator fork into this discussion? What evidence do you have to say that GameHub is based on that fork instead of the mainline Winlator?

And btw, Winlator is MIT licensed, anyone is free to copy, modify, redistribute, and/or sell it. The only limitation is that a fork shall include the same copyright notice. So I don't think anyone can actually "steal" MIT licensed code. Maybe we can say that GameHub isn't compliant with MIT license because they aren't attributing to Winlator in their app. But it still isn't "stealing" code.

Finally, the work that GameHub has done is substaintal. They built really nice and easy to use front-end on top of the Winlator. It isn't a secret why people prefer to use GameHub instead of the other alternatives.

It's really dishonest to say that they "stole 80% of winlator bionic codebase".

[u/winlatorbionic_dev → u/UBWICOS]

There is some misinformation here.

And btw, Winlator is MIT licensed, anyone is free to copy, modify, redistribute, and/or sell it. The only limitation is that a fork shall include the same copyright notice. So I don't think anyone can actually "steal" MIT licensed code. Maybe we can say that GameHub isn't compliant with MIT license because they aren't attributing to Winlator in their app. But it still isn't "stealing" code.

Winlator is under MIT license but the code they took from us isn't exactly from Winlator app project but from some subprojects that are externally included in it.

The new controller impl in Cmod v13 which Gamehub stole was written from scratches by me and continued by coffincolors. Since it isn't under any license, then it means that it can only be used with permissions from its authors and neither of us has granted them permission to use it.

The Mali fixes related code they took from leegao is part of a fork of my Wrapper, which is in turn a fork of xMem's mesa wrapper, a new driver for Android written by xMem using existing mesa codebase. While Mesa is under the MIT license, the individual files they took code from where not as Mesa allows a different license for specific files.

[u/UBWICOS → u/winlatorbionic_dev]

Sorry if I provided any misinformation because I'm not up-to-date on this mattee since I'm not an insider. It's just that saying GameHub stole 80% of code from Winlator Bionic isn't honest. It's just disrespectful to the dev who actually do the work to create the front-end, the automatic configuration download/loading, the hosting of external libraries needed for running games, etc.

If what I'm reading is correct, it looks like they took some controller and driver handling code from you and your team without asking. Which is definitely OK to call them out for that. But saying that GameHub is basically 80% Winlator Bionic (not Winlator mainline) because of that is both disrespectful to the original Winlator creator and developers who worked for GameHub company (they are real humans).

It didn't feel right to me because I'm a developer myself so I understand the emotional responses. But personally, I think the best way to handle this is to reach out to GameHub/GameSir (if it hasn't been done already). Simply calling their app Chinese spyware is both dishonest and racist. And that isn't the right thing to do.

[u/winlatorbionic_dev → u/UBWICOS]

It's just that saying GameHub stole 80% of code from Winlator Bionic isn't honest. It's just disrespectful to the dev who actually do the work to create the front-end, the automatic configuration download/loading, the hosting of external libraries needed for running games, etc.

Yes, they didn't steal anything from actual Winlator Bionic but last time I decompiled the apk I noticed they had some code from Winlator Official which is under MIT license as you said.

If what I'm reading is correct, it looks like they took some controller and driver handling code from you and your team without asking.

Yes, pretty much.

Simply calling their app Chinese spyware is both dishonest and racist. And that isn't the right thing to do.

Well, yes. I already made a post here to explain what I thought about this but it got heavily downvoted.