Comment on DuckStation dev dropping support for Linux

• DishonestBirb@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Just do it anyways, fuck what he wants.

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  • Tanoh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Forking against the license wouldn’t solve the problem of not being included in distributions though. No sane distribution would include the fork.

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    • DishonestBirb@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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      • grue@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Crypto laws aren’t copyright. Protesting an unjust law via civil disobedience is entirely different from hypocritically breaking a law you yourself rely on just because you wanna.

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    • stsquad@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You could of you want fork from when it was GPLv3: github.com/…/7f4e5d55dbdef5a50e0aa4994f667fb03d85…

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      • oplkill@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        But how did he changed from copyleft licence to stricter? Isn’t it already vialenced copyleft licence?

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      • Tanoh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yes, making a fork from the newest version that allows it would be the way to go. I am quite unfamiliat with PS1 emulation but perhaps there are others anyway?

        Open source freedom means that the author can have crazy license, and we can just not use it or look for alternatives

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• Matty_r@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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  • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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• MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Then it’s not FOSS.

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