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

• Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You can’t fork it or redistribute it… but you can distribute patches for users to apply, and those are easy to add in a PKGBUILD. That’s how a lot of game/ROM patches are distributed and they appear to be legal.

  It’s an emulator, lets be real, the majority of the users couldn’t give a shit about license terms anyway.

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  • PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s also a PS1 emulator. A game that’s been emulated for over 20 years now._

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  • jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Getting flashbacks to installing qmail back in the day…

    I have a heard time imagining it to be worth it with other psx emulators readily available without weird hoops to go through.

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  • nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah… But then it sucks for anyone not running Arch (btw) or derivative distros. I really don’t have a dog in this merge conflict but really would feel bad for any packager maintainers.

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    • Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      but really would feel bad for any packager maintainers.

      It’s already unpackageable because of the license anyway.

      The only “legit” way to get the emulator is their provided AppImage bundle, and nothing else. The author also has a rant about Flatpak being broken and unreliable and refusing to support that, so…

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      • nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I have some issues with flatpak, myself, but that mainly stems from having trouble finding documentation to clear up how to properly use extensions and non-standard dependencies that are easy to do with OCI images.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If it’s only available via appimage, as the reply to this comment states, then it will still run just fine on Arch.

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      • nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yeah… That’s pretty terrible. I was meaning packaging patchsets for other distros. Hopefully the GPL-preserving fork is better.

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• subignition@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You cannot forbid forking a public GitHub repository, per their terms of service

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  • nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yes. The license doesn’t technically appear to forbid forking, just sharing the fork.

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• mesamunefire@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  So how would that work? I know we say emulators are allowed...but Nintendo came knocking a while ago, Github removed the repos pretty quick. If he goes and applies their fork-less license in a court of law....that would have very nasty consequences for them.

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  • lime@feddit.nu ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    the big thing that caused nintendo to take action against the switch emulators was that the creators were taking money for it, and explicitly pirating games. like, they set up a patreon where you could pay for early access to builds specifically tailored to games that were not released yet.

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    • mesamunefire@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Theres a LOT of emulators that got caught in all that not just the ones that were taken down for legal reasons. Theres a reason most of the new emulators are not on Github/public git sites anymore.

      Im not saying your wrong, what I am saying is that the situation is a bit nuanced and if a PSX emulator wants to push their "rights" they might find they actually dont have any when push comes to shove.

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      • lime@feddit.nu ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        yeah they came down hard after someone crossed the line after looking the other way for like 30 years. i’m not surprised.

        also, playstation is like the most legally well-tread area for emulators. remember bleem?

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