Ludere-Wrapped ROMs, only $7.48 a serving!

Concertina Wired Shorts

Every day as of late, I play a little bit of CAPCOM's Breath of Fire Nintendo GameBoy Advance port on my confinement orange Securus tablet.

An Image of Xial holding their prison issued tablet up to the camera at a Kiosk
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This thing right here.

Every day, I wonder what license scheme GitHub user 'tytydraco' used for Ludere, which helps people to bundle RetroArch (a software emulator for older video games) with a ROM (a 'dump' or copy of the read-only memory storage that games shipped on) and build a ready-to-play binary on Android devices.

Is there a clause that forbids people from making money on their work? Maybe a CC-BY-NC-SA license...? :')

This said, since I've been in prison, I've paid for and played a number of GBA games.

We've lost the option to write a ticket to suggest titles, so it's a wild guess what each week will bring; we just know it'll include at least one Nintendo GameBoy Advance title, wrapped for our pleasure.

This begets an interesting question: Am I now committing software piracy? Or am I enabling it through the purchase with funds passed through the Keefe Commissary Network (doing business as Access Corrections)?

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Hmm...

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I got it! So, become a business serving prisons, and software piracy is overlooked by the most litigious video game company ever. Got it!

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Editors note: Ludere appears to use a GPL-3.0 Licence, which does permit Commercial Use