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.
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.
jj4211@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks 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.
Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 3 weeks 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…
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks 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.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
If it’s only available via appimage, as the reply to this comment states, then it will still run just fine on Arch.
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Yeah… That’s pretty terrible. I was meaning packaging patchsets for other distros. Hopefully the GPL-preserving fork is better.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s also a PS1 emulator. A game that’s been emulated for over 20 years now._