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*Fear of hydra-like copycats flooding the market trying to cash in, typically forking the app ''verbatim'' and adding nothing new other than a different branding and intrusive in-app advertising, in extreme cases even getting in the way of the app itself. Given the somewhat anarchic nature of Google Play and greedy script kiddies flooding the market with low-quality shovelware and nominal "games" which were nothing more than adware being passed off as "Grand Theft Auto" or some other popular title, this has been the fate of various open-source projects for Android. Some DraStic community members have proposed a somewhat restricted but source-available license in the vein of [[FinalBurn Alpha]], as this would at least in theory give the developers even better legal footing against unauthorised forks.
It's long been accepted that if it were to ever be open-sourced that it would be when development has ended/when they stopped selling it, however this may be happening soon(™️). Right now the devs are trying to polish support for 64-bit<ref name="arm64">[https://drastic-ds.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5501 DraStic release 2.5.1.1a]</ref> and other compatability issues with Android before calling it ready to open-source. This is projected to happen sometime in the future, however in the meantime they may continue to release more ports on other ARM-based systems<ref name="update">[https://drastic-ds.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5680 Status update on next release, 64-bit and the future]</ref>. However as the emulator runs worse with each subsequent version of Android and Exophase is absent from the official DraStic forum forcing users to attempt to find workarounds to keep the software they bought at the best working state as possible, it might be implied that Exophase is not interested in this emulator anymore and open-sourcing may never happen, especially as he did not open up the source code in 2020 despite announcing it.
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