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Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip to c/emulation@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/46825035

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[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 38 points 6 days ago (4 children)

This comment by woelkchen on the original thread adds some context worth reading imo.

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

This developer appears to have accepted contributions from over 100 other people prior to having a change of heart about the GPL and ~~unilaterally~~ switching the project to a non-free license (CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives).

~~Somehow I doubt that all of the other contributors actually agreed to that license change 🤔~~

Bonus 🤡-points for making a bunch of unrelated changes to source code in the "Misc: Update copyright headers" commit.

edit: i stand corrected, thanks to @LiveLM@lemmy.zip i see the developer wrote:

I have the approval of prior contributors, and if I did somehow miss you, then please advise me so I can rewrite that code. I didn't spend several weekends rewriting various parts for no reason.

It's odd they didn't mention that in the commit where they changed the license.

🥂 to whoever carries on development of the last GPL version, and/or develops other free software emulators. and 🤌 to people continuing to contribute to this one after it became non-free.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 days ago

Somehow I doubt that all of the other contributors actually agreed to that license change 🤔

It seems he did in fact get their permission, and rewrote code he couldn't relicense

[–] huf@hexbear.net 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

heh, i've seen almost exactly this break a dev before. it was the ion3 dev, tuomo valkonnen. he was probably never entirely OK, but eventually he ragequit opensource, installed windows, deleted all his opensource projects and went incommunicado.

what pushed him over the edge was distros shipping packages of somewhat older versions of his windowmanager (so, not updating their packages as soon as he released a new stable version) and then users filing bugreports for bugs he'd already fixed.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I totally get the frustration of getting pointless bug reports.
I've seen many repos with a "you must reproduce your issue on the version we release here to report" policy, I wonder if that could be a solution.
Maybe together with a GitHub bot to scan logs posted on the issues and inform the reporter about that...

[–] huf@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago

he had the policy, he just couldnt deal with the idiots who refused to read it

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 days ago

Much appreciated. The author's comment for that commit does not paint the full picture.

[–] OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

The comment about analogies is so good.