lets just say in a few years that dolphin can run all games without a bug or a glitch..
In that time is dolphin gonna remain its status as open source or it is just gonna be a proprietary software??
btw keep up the good work devs
Yes, it's going to remain open source. We have no reason to make it proprietary, and doing so wouldn't even be legally feasible.
You could potentially come up with a proprietary fork of Dolphin, but you'd never be able to give an executable to anyone. It would basically just live on your own computer forever and you could never share or sell it unless you gave away the source code at the same time.
For further reading on the subject, this was/is an excellent blog post made on the subject of Dolphin's software license. "Software Licenses" are sort of like the more-familiar concept of Copyright, in that they create legal freedoms and restrictions for a given work. Dolphin is "Free-as-in-Freedom" software, and so will remain.
https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2015/05/25/...g-dolphin/
(12-30-2017, 02:17 PM)AnyOldName3 Wrote: [ -> ]You could potentially come up with a proprietary fork of Dolphin, but you'd never be able to give an executable to anyone.
Not legally but it's not like the there isn't precedent. Just look at lots of emulators for Android: Most are based on some open source emulator – often GPLed – and someone took the source code, ported it to Android, added ads, and never released the source again for the resulting binaries.