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[WIP]
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## What are nillware's plans for the project?
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- We want **reicast** to be the best dreamcast emulator, available _on every possible platform_, with the source **public**, and at _no cost of the end users_.
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- We are not really interested on making any money off of it, apart from guaranteeing its developers' sustainability.
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- We'd really like that every regular/"important" contributor to get paid a reasonable amount of money for their work.
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## CLA Stuff
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**reicast** has a CLA, which typically requires the commit author's signature. This means that **any commit returned upstream from a fork of reicast** also requires a CLA signature.
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- This leaves two options for handling the commit.
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1. Either attempt to get the original author to put in the extra work of modifying and resubmitting it to reicast or
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2. alter the commit's recognized author by resubmitting it with a reference to the original commit.
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### Here's the current copyright structure of reicast
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- Parts written independently (this covers over 95% of the source) are owned by nillware.
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- Parts that were developed by skmp under contract, for which he doesn't have the copyright, but are licensed as GPL.
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- Parts developed by the rest of the **nulldc team (ZeZu, PsyMan)**. This code is under GPL, but the copyright belongs to them.
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- 3rd party contributions to nulldc, before 2008-2009. We use them under GPL.
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- Contributions to the reicast project. Copyright belongs to the contributors, we use them via GPL.
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- 3rd party libraries.
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We'll have to rewrite the parts that we can't get permission for though.
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And be advised, we are really good at "refactoring" code!
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