Comment on DuckStation dev dropping support for Linux

• Tanoh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • oplkill@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The dev did develop most things himself so they have the copyright and can relicense freely. Also, they’ve asked other major contributors whether they agree with him relicensing their code, which they were seemingly okay with. Small contributions aren’t copyrightable anyway, and/or the dev likely has rewritten them already.

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    • Tanoh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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