Please add licenses to your projects, rust DS emulator Dust now dead.

573 points QuackdocTech

I realize this is only tangentially on topic, so to make it on topic I want to showcase Dust, Dust is a DS emulator written in rust that is very performant and quite good. or rather it was. if you go to the link now where the repo was https://github.com/Kelpsy/dust the account is now deleted, and development is halted, and while I do have a fork on my GitHub "quackdoc/dust" that as far as I can tell is only one or two commits behind. a license was never added to it.

this means even if I wanted to work on it (which to be clear, I don't but did have a friend interested), neither I nor my friend don't have the rights to distribute the work or anything like that as far as I can tell (not for a lack of looking either). this is a shame because dust was actually a pretty fast DS emulator running with 3gpu for 3d acceleration (including resolution scaling).

keep in mind that simply pushing code to a public repo does not make the code open source as per github's licensing fhelp page so for all intents and purposes, unless the author brings up their account again and ads a license, the Dust DS emulator is dead with no hope of revival. (at least one that abides by licensing)