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Put me in the camp of those that feel that there is no need for any special compensation from Nintendo. Attribution and recognition is more than enough. Isn't it exactly the reason for releasing the software under this license?

People who release free software are generally people who enjoy programming. A programmer with a proven track record of releasing high quality free software should have no problem securing a high paying job. If this guy happened to be looking for one this public attribution from Nintendo is surely something that can help level up a CV.

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Same. Why are we having this discussion anyway? The author released his code with an MIT license. He couldn't have made his intentions of free/fair use more explicit: https://github.com/feross/safe-buffer/blob/master/LICENSE

He's just surprised/happy about it and isn't demanding anything. Other people are the ones saying Nintendo should compensate him in some way, shape or form.

> Attribution and recognition is more than enough.

To be fair, they're just fulfilling they're legal requirements. Second paragraph of MIT License requires including License and copyright notice:

"The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software."

which is exactly what they did.

Ferros is one of the open-source devs who make a huge amount of open-source work, but rather than spread the glory and share ownership, he instead complains that they have too much work and start to try commercialise their work. He ended up trying various experiments to fund his open-source work, one including selling terminal space when installing npm packages.

"This was due to a project funding that was created by Feross, one of the StandardJS maintainers. The idea behind Funding is that companies buy ad space in people’s terminals, and the Funding project then shares its profits with open-source projects who signed-up to show the ads." - https://dev.to/adriansandu/npm-bans-terminal-ads-and-mozilla...

My point is that he could have a normal job, but he got lucky with a few projects and then built a life around the kudos from open-source projects (like Nintendo's endorcement).

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