Developer of PlayStation 1 emulator DuckStation threatens "removing Linux support entirely" but not yet

Seems the main developer of the PlayStation 1 emulator DuckStation is not happy with Linux packaging, threatening to remove Linux support.

As quick a bit of background - the project was previously under the open source GPL license, but was changed in September last year to a more restrictive license. This was due to people violating the old license, which isn't exactly going to stop anyone violating a new license but anyway…

On the official GitHub a change was made by Connor "stenzek" McLaughlin to remove the PKGBUILD for Arch Linux. In the change description stenzek noted:

I originally provided this an alternative to the broken AUR packages.

However, it seems that Arch users would rather use broken packages and keep complaining to me instead of their packager. I specifically forbid packages for DuckStation (see README.md), and there's no way to request removal of these packages without handing my details over to a distribution I want nothing to do with.

So this is step one. Next step will be removing Linux support entirely, because I'm sick of the headaches and hacks for an operating system that only compromises 2% of the userbase, and I don't even use myself. But I'm hoping the Linux community will be reasonable, because as someone giving up my free time and not being compensated in any way, I shouldn't have to deal with this.

Just grep the source for "wayland" and you'll see what I mean.

Emphasis ours.

However, despite what clearly looked like a threat to just remove Linux support is not exactly true (not yet anyway). While it certainly reads like that was their plan (there's not really any other way to read into such a thing), in the official Discord they later said:

Since people seem to be spreading misinformation (yay), let's make some things clear:

1. Linux support is not being removed from DuckStation, I have no immediate plans to do that.,
2. I've created a deletion request for the AUR package that is causing headaches, if they can remove it, that solves everything and we can go back to business as usual.,
3. If they don't, then we'll see. I don't really feel like playing a cat and mouse game of making changes that prevent it from building/running in that environment, it's easier to just walk away.

What a messy situation this emulator has been.