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[โ€“] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 155 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

itt: a bunch of entitled Linux youths that don't understand burnout or QOL.

dude has set a limit to what he wants or is willing to do. still gets called a bitch for defining the line and is still called an asshole.

some of y'all even bring up multiple cases of other foss devs doing/saying the same thing, continue to call them assholes.

๐Ÿค” There's a pattern here...but I'm just too blinded by the brilliancy of my distro to see it...

[โ€“] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 75 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Notice how the developer argues he forbids packages and how the AIR is in violation of this? But an AUR PKGBUILD is not a package - it's build instructions. It doesn't distribute or package anything, you can check it yourself. It's not called "PKG" for a reason. He misunderstands his own license and believes the allegedly broken PKGBUILD violates it.

He may be right about some users annoying him with bug reports though I'd be surprised if it was that common. It seems like he got a couple of reports, noticed the "forbidden" PKGBUILD and then reacted like this. Just like when changing the license from GPL to CC-BY-NC-ND in order to combat... GPL violations and trademark infringements?

Frankly, the project has not had parricularly stable leadership in a while. Though a bit unfair of a comparison, compare it to Dolphin and you can see a night and day difference in project management.

[โ€“] RedFrank24@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

Ironic that a guy who facilitates large amounts of piracy is complaining about violating license agreements.

[โ€“] wigit@infosec.pub 6 points 3 weeks ago

If someone wanted to maintain the PKGBUILD for this project, it'd be trivial to include a patch that removes the code he added trying to make it not build.

Or, to make sure to not be in breach of the no-derivatives part of his lisence, just reimplement it and ship with a patch that fixes his "blocker".

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[โ€“] DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.world 44 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

The problem has originated because he changed the license resulting in older versions being the only way to ship duckstation.

Edit: lisence to license

[โ€“] wigit@infosec.pub 26 points 3 weeks ago

I wonder if he received permission from all the other contributors to change the license of their contributions.

[โ€“] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 43 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Seriously, this thread is honestly vile and these people are a perfect example as to why this is happening.

How they are this blind to their own toxicity is beyond me

[โ€“] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 62 points 3 weeks ago

I haven't read anything VILE here. It's happening because he's both controlling and implicitly bad at maintaining said control. Had he not insisted on trying to control packages he would have had a working package like every other software project in the ecosystem that is properly maintained for free by other people's labor.

[โ€“] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[โ€“] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 9 points 3 weeks ago

Defending a dick head dev they know nothing about or their history and insulting end users under false assumption. Overly self righteous.

Yep, reddit as fuck.

[โ€“] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

You might want to look up the meaning of the word "entitled".

[โ€“] febra@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

People just expect open source devs that do this shit in their free time with absolutely no compensation to bend over for them and do everything they please. The good thing about open source development is that you can just help with the development yourself.

[โ€“] dustyData@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, but no one can help this one developer because they changed the license. So now the project is just source available, not open source. They chose to be alone.

[โ€“] stormeuh@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I'd go further, you should help with the development. Seems like some people would rather spend hours hounding a developer to implement their thing, rather than figuring out how to do it themselves...

[โ€“] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 weeks ago

Except the Duckstation developer changed the license to where they don't accept contributions from others, so we couldn't help even if we wanted to.

[โ€“] socsa@piefed.social -1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (26 children)

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.

[โ€“] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

I'm passing judgement. He's a weirdo

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