This is why I will never work with tunip3.
tunip3 violated several licenses and abused his position of power. You can see here tunip3’s scheme, which was clearly commercial in nature. Also note the exploitative tone: “we don’t care how broke you are, how you don’t have a debit card or how you really really want these games specifically on your Xbox ... If you want it that badly, you’ll find a way to pay.”
See here: https://i.imgur.com/e1NNXv8.jpg
See here: https://i.imgur.com/szjHShj.jpg
In addition, his store was selling VVVVVV, with assets, on retail mode without permission. He asked for and received a license exception from the author, Terry Cavanagh, but only for distributing it without assets, on dev mode, non-commercially. Selling it on retail mode with assets was a clear violation.
License exception: https://github.com/TerryCavanagh/VVVVVV/blob/master/License%20exceptions.md
Next, he distributed RetroArch for pay with non-commercial cores, which means that the authors of the cores did not want people to use them for commercial reasons. I have the original package here, taken directly from his store, with the cores in question: https://www.mediafire.com/file/ie6x78tz1bghdnm/Retrospection.rar/file
The licenses were broken for the following non-commercial cores: Dinothawr, FB Alpha 2012 CPS-1, FB Alpha 2012 CPS-2, FB Alpha 2012 Neo Geo, fMSX, Genesis Plus GX, MAME 2000, MAME 2003, MAME 2010, PicoDrive, Snes9x, Snes9x 2002, Snes9x 2005, Snes9x 2005 Plus, and Snes9x 2010.
Here’s the list of cores that are non-commercial: https://docs.libretro.com/development/licenses/
The FTP server he has developed was an extension of these projects: https://github.com/taoyouh/UniversalFtpServer and https://github.com/taoyouh/FtpServer.
They were released with the GNU General Public License v3.0 and the MIT License respectively. Tunip3’s FTP server source does not contain the original licenses and copyright statements from the author of the software, meaning that these licenses have also been violated. Those licenses are difficult to break, but he found a way.
He also tried to force me to trash the guide I made, and I asked him to give me the source for the FTP app he was making in return. He did agree to that, but a week later he revoked my access, and the code with all my added work was automatically deleted. After that, I still didn’t publish my guide, but he sent some people from his server to harass me, apparently to try to intimidate me into silence.
See here the notice of the deleted fork: https://i.imgur.com/bKbELMv.png
After he deleted my access to the FTP server code, with all my work, and attempted to intimidate me, I decided I didn’t owe him anything. I was not going to go along with the deal when he revoked the code, his side of the agreement, and treated me roughly. Naturally, he then did what he does best. He stole my work and passed it off as his own, which he still claims authorship for to this very day.
I did not want this method to be abused in this way. I created and published the guide in order to end the stranglehold on supply that defined tunip3’s organization, an organization that sold free open-source software without permission from the original authors. Access to free software should be free and exploitative businesses should not exist.
