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The post says AUR builds are being blocked and soon Linux support will be dropped entirely.

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[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 68 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Explanation: https://lemmy.world/comment/18532107

tl;dr dude is a bit of a control freak

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

From the linked comment it sounds like there was a license change in the projects history. I'm surprised the various distro packagers didn't just collaborate on a renamed fork, unless there are more actively developed emulators still under a FLOSS licence?

Edit yep it was GPLv3 about 11 months ago: https://github.com/stenzek/duckstation/commit/7f4e5d55dbdef5a50e0aa4994f667fb03d854928

[–] zod000@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I believe there is a fork from the last GPLv3 version called SwanStation.

[–] embed_me@programming.dev 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Better name at the very least

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

How about we not bring anti-duckiness into here.

[–] vorpuni@jlai.lu 2 points 1 week ago

Someone raised the point you can't change from GPLv3 if someone else touched the code and they don't approve the change (unless you rewrite everything yourself). I'm not an expert but considering v3 is to avoid proprietary software more than v2, I would be very amused if this guy gets forced to admit it's always been GPLv3 and he wasn't allowed to set a restrictive license.