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DuckStation dev dropping support for Linux (github.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Internet@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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

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[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And you can't even fork it

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[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

From the looks of it the version most people use (the one that comes in package managers) was already forked awhile ago from the version the dev did allow to be forked, and the official version hasn't been used in package managers for awhile, because the second version was under a read only license and distros therefore couldn't package it.

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[–] DishonestBirb@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sure you can. Absolutely nothing actually prevents it.

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[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

The licence is not FOSS its its creative commons no derivatives meaning no forks its a source available licence

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[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

License doesn't allow you to do it

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[–] DishonestBirb@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

Who cares? The source is there. Do it anyways. DeCSS was technically illegal for ages in the US. VLC (not hosted in the US) still contained it to play DVDs.

"Not allowed" and "Can't" are two VERY different things.

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[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago

There's a bunch of protections in fair use things that actually allowed or made that a very grey area, so end users could do it.

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[–] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago*

This is a bit pendantic, but GitHub's TOS allows users to fork your public repositories, regardless of its license.

You couldn't modify the new code under the dipshit license, but you can do whatever you want to the slightly older code under the good license.

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