He specifically switched the license because people kept sending angry support requests for badly done distro repackages that didn’t work properly.
Too many entitled users think that “customer is king” also applies when they didn’t pay a cent for the software they use.
It’s a common problem that FOSS developers get burnt out with idiots demanding support thinking that the developer somehow owes them something, when in reality he’s giving away hundreds or thousands of hours of work for free.
I understand the dev, but it still seems like they created this problem. Seems like they could have just left the license as it was and say “only these OS’s are supported at this time, feel free to port or fork but I’m not responsible for anything beyond this”
He specifically switched the license because people kept sending angry support requests for badly done distro repackages that didn’t work properly.
Arch Linux’s version literally builds his latest released code. https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=duckstation-git looks relatively straightforward. It checks out Stenzek’s latest code and then does a for-loop for Stenzek’s super weird build-dependencies-linux.sh script (I would have just used a .spec file in Open Build Service but my packing background is RPM and not whatever use case that is).
This one explains it for me:
https://lemmy.world/comment/18532107
Still, I am totally on the dev’s side.
He specifically switched the license because people kept sending angry support requests for badly done distro repackages that didn’t work properly.
Too many entitled users think that “customer is king” also applies when they didn’t pay a cent for the software they use.
It’s a common problem that FOSS developers get burnt out with idiots demanding support thinking that the developer somehow owes them something, when in reality he’s giving away hundreds or thousands of hours of work for free.
I understand the dev, but it still seems like they created this problem. Seems like they could have just left the license as it was and say “only these OS’s are supported at this time, feel free to port or fork but I’m not responsible for anything beyond this”
…or not set up a support Discord and then get mad when people ask for support…
Arch Linux’s version literally builds his latest released code. https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=duckstation-git looks relatively straightforward. It checks out Stenzek’s latest code and then does a for-loop for Stenzek’s super weird build-dependencies-linux.sh script (I would have just used a .spec file in Open Build Service but my packing background is RPM and not whatever use case that is).