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Bold move, we'll see if it pays off. It'll just be forked like what already happened once with SwanStation.
The current license does not allow that. It saw hostile relicensing a year ago https://vimuser.org/duckstation.html
Always the same story - If the software isn't free, then your use of it is legally bound to the random whims of some guy. Fingers crossed a fork from pre-hostile licensing takes over.
Shit, I didn't know he did that. The kinds of nerds who use Linux are exactly the kinds of nerds who use emulators, so either way it's a baffling choice to turn actively hostile on them.
who gives a fuck about the license?
the source is there, nothing is stopping people from forking it except a markdown document
the license actually is what permits distributions to package Duckstation and spread it to more people. What this credit to society did was go scorched earth on everyone who worked with him because of his crash out.
Funny enough that the AUR is just a script to download and package duckstation, he literally has no legal basis to take the script down because his license doesn't actually apply.
Stenzeck is a loser who hurt everyone who cared while the people who victimized him dont give a shit.
The legal system, unfortunately
IP lawyers are usually too expensive for non corporate entities to wield. Is this dev willing to put 400K of his money where his mouth is?...signs point to no.
this would be very similar to pirating game, which is totally fine for me but in practice is very hard to form a community around writing code for it. i doubt someone would enforce the license in a "pirated" fork but still many open source devs trust and comply with licences to some extend
Unfortunately I’m not sure forking is an option. After the SwanStation thing, DuckStation switched to a more restrictive source-available license, and if I’m reading it right I believe that forking would be in violation of the license. This section specifically is what I’m looking at:
I am not a lawyer though so I could be misunderstanding. I do wonder if someone won’t just try forking it anyways regardless of legality.
scratches head
If we're already "pirating" games... are we expected to be the kind of people who will submit to an arbitrary set of words in a .txt file to keep us from something?
most of the open source devs do, to an extend. i would not be surprised if some of them took the "only backup of your own games" seriously.
Just do it anyway he says he doesn't make money from it, what's he going to do, sue over his free project
hardly anyone uses Linux, they'll be fine
Steamdecks have changed this and the venn diagram overlap for gaming on linux is most of its circle.
I don’t see why steamdeck users wouldn’t run retroarch which has plenty of PS1 cores including a working duckstation one. Nobody I know of is using a standalone emulator for anything ps1 or below