(I removed some not related posts about RA. Also this post contains swearing)
So to give a bit of an update. I emailed Capcom and Koch Media on the day of the announcement of the arcade stick. Here is a probably out of order list of what has happened so far. I am not quoting directly from any emails as I am not sure if that is even legal here in the UK, and if this does get as far as going to court I don't want to have f***ed up in any way.
CapcomCapcom are the only people to respond so far. I don't want to say they don't care, but the reply they sent back was pretty much along the lines of "we licenced the roms to Koch, please go away", so that is what I am doing.
KochNo reply so far. I have sent them an email linking to this thread, the threads on Reddit, the video by lantus, and even Barry's own twitter post, the FB licence, etc to give them an idea of why this is not legal. No response so far.
BarryInterestingly I had an email from Barry. It originally went to my Spam folder, I guess because he is a traitor. To paraphrase:
- Asked me to stop contacting Capcom
- He said that the "stripped down version of FB Alpha" that he licenced for use in the capcom arcade stick contains no code written by me, and any code from MAME has been re-ported from the GPL3 licenced MAME, which means it's fine for commercial use. I guess they don't know that this is still not legal due to the licence of FB Alpha, which is not GPL3 compatible and also is NON f***ING COMMERCIAL LIKE THE LICENCE SAYS.
- He also asked that I stop spreading incorrect statements online. I don't believe I have spread any incorrect statements online. If anything I was giving them the benefit of the doubt for a while. IMO, they are pricks.
- The wording of the email makes it seem like he thinks he speaks for all the FB Alpha team. He does not speak for any of them other than himself.
That pretty much covers what has happened so far, and I am still pursuing this with Koch. I am not replying to Barry at all, as he couldn't be bothered to a) speak to the devs separately b) acknowledge any of this publicly c) attempted to kill an almost 20 year old open source project due to what I can only assume was for money.