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...also, this is something you're not supposed to do. You can "change the license" to your own work, but the work done so far (by contributors) was GPL... so, a bit messy, I guess.
The repo owner claims to have permission from contributors to relicense (and rewrote some other parts where they couldn't get permission?): https://github.com/stenzek/duckstation/pull/3295#issuecomment-2348988362
I don't really understand the rest of that comment though...
It reads like the usual thing you see with retro gaming types: someone, who probably has all the right in the world to do so, makes their version of something without the original person's name on it, and original dude has a little fit about how they're being denied their due credit or whatever.
Like, not the first time this has happened, and certainly won't be the last time it happens.
Though I doubt he really has the ability to change license on a whim like that, but it also doesn't matter, because it's not like that's retroactive. Just fork it before guy had a fit, and forget he exists, and move on.