Public domain does not have an internationally agreed upon definition,
As such it's generally preferred to use an extremely liberal license,
which can explicitly list the rights granted by the copyright holder.
The CC0 license is the usual choice here.
This "relicensing" is done without hunting down copyright holders, since
it is presumed that their release of this work into the public domain
authorizes us to redistribute this code under any other license of our
choosing.
The new COPYING file does not directly copy the GPLv2 text, since this
license does not apply to some parts of the repository. Instead, it
documents our usage of SPDX tags and where to find license information.
This code was part of Dolphin's relicensing from v2 to v2+ a while back,
we just never updated these copyright headers. I double-checked that
segher gave us permission to relicense this code to v2+ on 2015-05-16.
SPDX standardizes how source code conveys its copyright and licensing
information. See https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/1-rationale/ . SPDX
tags are adopted in many large projects, including things like the Linux
kernel.
This broke ejecting Wii discs while the game is running, as the drive state was set to Ready even when no disc was present, but other code still reported the missing disc, which confused games as you can't be both ready to read and have no disc. That would cause games to show an unrecoverable error screen, instead of a "please insert the game disc" screen.
This only affected Wii games; the GameCube games used regular disc reads which worked fine.
Pierre Bourdon
JosJuice
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