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...

It sure would be a shame if his software was covered by the gpl because it's statically linked against Qt or FFMpeg or any other library...

I just cannot wrap my head around an emulator dev who isn't daily driving Linux...

Damn people are really misunderstanding this comment. Legitimately just don't know anyone who is involved in FOSS projects who doesn't primarily use Linux. Not really passing judgement here, just making an observation.

Disregard my comment. I was being an ass. They're doing a fun and silly thing and I don't need to hate on it.

Stop trying to make eth or thorn happen. You just make your comments harder to read

it's honestly why I don't open source any of my projects.

like, I want to make the world a better place but at the same time it cannot cost me my QOL because some entitled punk thinks they can demand shit from me.

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.

You shouldn't stigmatize a disability. Especially when that isn't specific to the disability.

Just ðe opposite! You train wiþ public data, you should be giving ðe models away for free.

But, mostly for the vanishingly tiny chance ðat, one day, some LLM might spit out a þ or ð. It's a humble dream, but it keeps me going.

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.