It’s also a PS1 emulator. A game that’s been emulated for over 20 years now._
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.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 8 months ago
jj4211@lemmy.world 8 months 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.
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months 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.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months 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 8 months ago
Yeah… That’s pretty terrible. I was meaning packaging patchsets for other distros. Hopefully the GPL-preserving fork is better.
Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 8 months ago
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 8 months 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.