He explicitly states that it is not 0% of his time due to being bombarded with support requests.
Read the post.
eldebryn@lemmy.world 4 days ago
While users can be demanding, this reads like a very immature response. Going out of your way to block support and prohibit packaging, which you can let others do with 0 seconds of your time, is kinda rude.
Author may have been harassed for all I know, but this is still an emotional response. They could have just said “yeah I’m not supporting this at all, figure it out yourselves if you want to” rather than actively blocking Linux functionality/packaging, which is what this sounds like.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
eldebryn@lemmy.world 4 days ago
What I’m saying is that a more reasonable stance is to say “package as-is or fork it if you want I will put 0 effort to accomodate”.
Others have clarified that they are not as extreme as I thought though so maybe that’s fine.
I just think that from a perspective this seems like a “people in X country keep writing gay fanfic about my book and asking if A and B characters are gay. so I’m gonna stop selling there and also destroy All copies left in their language. Because I’m a petty man-child”.
But, once again, I hope this is not what’s actually happening here and my reading was off.
crestwave@lemmy.world 4 days ago
shiroininja@lemmy.world 4 days ago
As an open source developer, I’d love to have had contributors to help package my apps. It was killing me maintaining everything by myself. It sounds like the control issues I had when I first had contributors, where I didn’t want others to touch my babies too much when people actually started writing code.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 4 days ago
Honestly as a dev, I just don't give a fuck. Is that a licence? MIT is close enough.
I let people pr and if it breaks something, oh well. It's not attached to my real name anyway. A good ci/cd saves time and mental energy so I don't have to publish and test. If I bother.
There's some things like onionos that I've helped out with thst I actually take pride in. But it's all for fun. Why not, it's my time. Code will come and go, but I left things a tiny bit better for all y'all.
brisk@aussie.zone 4 days ago
You may appreciate the Do What the Fuck You Want to Public License, though more alternatives are usually recommended.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Sometimes external packaging is a huge issue for certain projects, where their support gets flooded with stuff that isn’t in their control and their reputation gets tanked.
…That being said, a PS1 emulator doesn’t seem so extreme to warrant that?
JordanZ@lemmy.world 4 days ago
crestwave@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It’s not open source. The maintainer relicensed the project from GPL to the current source-available license last year.
JordanZ@lemmy.world 4 days ago
IzzyJ@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Seems like just repackaging it would solve the problem a lot easier than alienating a userbase- even if small
mobotsar@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 2 days ago
No, the duckstation dev obtained the consent of contributors and/or rewrote all GPL code.
gamingonlinux.com/…/playstation-1-emulator-duckst…
nialv7@lemmy.world 4 days ago
So this is more like source available rather than open source…
zonnewin@feddit.nl 4 days ago
Open but not free.
JordanZ@lemmy.world 4 days ago
brisk@aussie.zone 4 days ago
Open Source has a specific meaning
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 4 days ago
There exists pkgbuilds for arch and previously packages of the older GPL builds.
A pkgbuild is just a recipe for each users computer do do the stuff needed to fetch and or build publicly available software. It is copyright the writer of the recipe not the owner of the software thus fetched. That is to say the owner of foobar can’t copyright the functional equivalent of a bash script which does git clone and make install foobar.
The older versions thereof are still available under the GPL and aren’t subject to being removed.
Neither of these are actually subject to the authors whims. He doesn’t own the pkgbuild and if he chooses to offer the file to users they can download it either by manually git cloning it or having a script do it.
So no they didn’t “do it anyway”