The dev forbids packaging his emulator via licence. I’m pleading that they’re the asshole.
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Matty_r@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Sucks that people are so shitty about problems that crop up in FOSS. Just be nice about things and it wouldn’t be a problem, the developer owes you nothing.
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
squaresinger@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Because he kept getting entitled support requests for badly packaged versions of his project in some linux distros.
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
No, that came after he changed the license. Linux users installed an old version because that was the newest version that was allowed to be packaged. Then, people gave bug reports and feature requests, based on that old version (which were already addressed in newer versions), mostly because they didn’t know any better.
It’s not entitlement if you want to use the package manager on a linux system.
Yttra@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Stenzek seems to have a history of being the problem… I don’t know if their words should be taken at face value, or that they’re arguing in good faith at all
Sanctus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Homie doesnt let you fork the shit to maintain it yourself. He made the problem.
Matty_r@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Doesn’t change how people treat developers. I gather this guy isn’t that great, but people should just move elsewhere instead of being hostile.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That happens so often with non-corporation FOSS. Some dude makes something cool and shares it for free, and in turn they get a butload of entitled support requests of idiots who think that “customer is king” applies for stuff they didn’t pay for too, and who think that the developer owes them something for using his software.
A similar thing happened with M66B. He got so fed up that he pulled all his apps. Luckily people managed to talk him out of it, but it’s really understandable.
DishonestBirb@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Just do it anyways, fuck what he wants.
Tanoh@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Forking against the license wouldn’t solve the problem of not being included in distributions though. No sane distribution would include the fork.
DishonestBirb@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Again, look at how distros handled DeCSS back when that was an issue. There were just “unofficial” 3rd party repos hosted in places that didn’t care about US crypto laws.
stsquad@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
You could of you want fork from when it was GPLv3: github.com/…/7f4e5d55dbdef5a50e0aa4994f667fb03d85…
MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Then it’s not FOSS.