Over on the GBA Temp forums, Monster hunter decided to confront Marcan with the “facts” on the homebrew channel (note: marcan is one of the developers of the home brew channel )
Today, 05:53 AM
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@Monster: I’m not sure you understand what HBC is. The Homebrew Channel. It’s copyrighted by us (that is, Team Twiizers), and you’re infringing our copyright if you distribute it, modified or not. You’re actually free to modify your own copy, as long as you don’t distribute the result.
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Lmao…I know what HBC is. Do you even know who made the HBC? IF your distributing HBC without there permission thats on you. If you read there license and you continue to distribute then thats all on you. Im talking about in general that modifying the Wii is not illegal, and you come out and say HBC is illegal when the HBC developers allow themselves to distribute it to the public. They are under the GPL license (General Public License). So if you want to get technical, theres your answer.
and the fun starts:
Umm, he’s one of the guys who made it. XD
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Dude, you really don’t get it. I’m one of the HBC developers. Of course HBC is legal. No, it is not under a GPL license. If you want HBC, download it from the bootmii size (where the combined installer is hosted). Of course that’s legal (well, modulo dodgy reverse engineering issues with libogc, but I won’t get into that again). What’s not legal is for someone other than us to distribute HBC. Distribute. Host, copy, put on their webserver, sell, whatever. If you want HBC, get it from the official site, period. You said it yourself: “IF your distributing HBC without there permission thats on you”. That’s my point. I’m one of them, you need to get permission from US.
In other news, I see the random “but will this remove my warez hax” posts are back. I’m going home. If anyone really cares enough to continue this conversation, they can open another thread and ping my email.
