But nobody wants to listen to your well thought out response. We just want to use our pitchforks! /s
Hmm, I want some pitchfork action against me.
Let us play how would TX be able to pull this off under the letter of the law but still get their own effectively exclusive build.
At its heart libretro is a frontend for emulators. It seems as well this dev made their own frontend/ui (which as previously covered counts as their own work and thus could be withdrawn). Assume that plays. There are not many developers of great potency working on the Switch (it is a closed device with annoying hacks and of no great power or technical interest) so it should not be too hard to make offers there to buy people off as it were*. Would not work for X86 firefox but far more viable here.
Alternatively it should be possible to basically do all those obfuscation contest tricks (redefine aspects of the language, minimal variable names, false trails and so forth. Better yet as the Switch has some small amount of power over say a PSP which happily emulated 16 bit and older devices, and a few from after that era as well, you could probably afford to burn some cycles and still have playable emulation) and just release uncommented text files. Stuff it on some constantly changing (but available) location, or possibly if it is still “make available to users of your software” and you can get away with emailing them said same after a request then that. Anybody that goes and finds the source now has 400 hours time needed to unpack your uncommented, obfuscated spaghetti.
*here it seems there are those that won't play but historically it has been a worthy gambit.
They presumably make a custom launch path for the said binary program – if it is not a XCI or NSP executable then most people are screwed and they control the OS in this scenario. A bit of obfuscation here never hurt anybody either. Most of this could probably be done without worrying the DRM rules some open source things have, if you can wind in your DRM like you have for the OS stuff then cool.
Each of the emulators gets called modules in the libretro parlance and that is indeed interesting as it would be where I head. Much like XBMC/Kodi merely provides a means to launch those video download plugins and
some kind soul makes them and makes them available then fantastic. You strip all reference to libretro from you official communications a la all those custom firefox builds, however much like everybody calls the Chinese action cameras gopro clones then you know places like here will make the connection for you. Anyway provide an API/plugin framework and you are good to go.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, are people actually defending those Team Xecutor douchebags and their blatant refusal to put forth their own efforts into doing things on their own? Why am I not surprised?
If I am unwilling or unable to do something myself I pay someone to do it for me... it has been the case since before recorded history. This thread seems to quite literally be discussing a payment offer for some potential services.