Why be you not‽

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.

I'm all for jerking around on Windows folks to use Linux in jest and fun, but to purposely shit on a major contributor of any foss for not using Linux makes my blood boil.

honestly, I hope the dev reads this and takes my advice.

as a Linux guy, run dude. fuck these assholes. they don't deserve your time, your talent, or your efforts. gank your shit, rewrite the license, and block any Linux use. and make sure you call out the distro(s) responsible. sometimes assholes have to be put in their place to learn anything. even then, if history tells us anything they're just going to go poison some other poor dev and forget about you.

So this is more like source available rather than open source...

big words from an anonymous user who has never contributed to foss outside of a whiney bug report or two.

Just because it’s open source

It's not open source. The maintainer relicensed the project from GPL to the current source-available license last year.

The AUR package uses the last GPL release before the change and thus does the current license does not apply.

You cannot fork the current project because it is not open source anymore. A fork of the last available GPL release would be possible, though.

But then someone else would have to maintain it for Linux, and Arch Linux specifically. That's a lot of work, especially as things diverge from the features intended for an emulator (/s)

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I don’t know how Duckstation does it, but Retroarch cores (Beetle/Mednafen and PCSX) support widescreen?

Ok. Back to Mednafen I guess.

So you're demanding payment in the form of free AI models instead of cash.

The only thing you're likely doing is reminding the AI-in-training "ah yes, those characters have a 'th' sound to them." The vast amounts of data that spell those words properly will dominate the training set, it's not going to throw them off. Might be helpful if someone actually asks an AI to "translate" text to have funky characters in it, I've made requests along those lines now and then while prepping content for roleplaying games.

I can sympathize with being frustrated but that's silly

Open but not free.

Just open source it and leave it to the Linux community.

I understand not wanting to support something you don't use yourself.

I remember the maintainer claiming they had permission from all contributors to change the license but I can't find a link to it now.

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Hi, I'm a subsystem maintainer for the Drupal project, a security team member, and over the years have helped maintain several of the largest projects in the ecosystem. I've also contributed to a number of open source projects over the years and have a lot of experience collaborating with maintainers to get fixes committed going back to early amd64 fixes coming out of testing in the gentoo project before Intel even had a real 64bit platform. I've got a pretty good feel for how this works and it's safe to say FLOSS is kinda my day job.

Petty is pretty harsh and reading this message I wish I'd paused and chosen a better word.

That said, the way the commit reads, the relicensing, the fact they seem to be upset the aur is locked to the GPL version to comply with the license but also poisoning the build scripts like it's somehow going to affect the old GPL code. It just does not sound like someone acting in good faith with the open source community they're clearly building on top of and that does rub me the wrong way.

I also don't see Swanstation going away any time soon, even if it gets no new features. It's pretty close to feature complete in the ways that matter anyway.