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Audacity was the first one I thought of.
Or MultiMC, PolyMC, the Sodium mod, or the original Minecraft Forge.
(Minecraft community devs need to stop having drama lmao)
Lol, I mean it's better to have a brief period of drama than permanently put up with the bad management. Although Sodium is an exception to that, I think the people working on it are the right people.
I'm conflicted on the license change, though. I don't know if it makes sense or not.
What happened to the Sodium mod?
The lead developer changed the license to a much less permissive one because of drama surrounding being credited in modpacks. The dev thinks there are forks that exist solely to sidestep crediting the original mod, I'm not up to date enough on Minecraft modding lore to know if this is true or not.
I'm pretty sure there's also a fork that branches off of the last GPL commit but I forget what it's called.
Doesn't GPL technically require you to attribute the upstream anyway?
Most open sorce licenses do, not just the GPL. I'm not sure what Minecraft modpackers do. But in the free and open source world, you'll always find that attribution. Sometimes they have a list who wrote the software and who maintained it for what timespan.
Wait, what happened to Audacity?
I believe they were bought by someone and eventually implemented some questionable practices. I don't remember the exact details, maybe someone else does.
I remember reading an update which said that the company went back on most (or all?) the negative changes and it's ok to use again.
I didn't confirm it myself, but that's part of why the alternatives aren't seeing as much development now
It was opt-out telemetry IIRC
Wasnt it something about data collection?
It was, the company that bought out Audacity added a bunch of telemetry to it
Any good alternatives?
I have used this as a drop-in replacement, with no complaints.
https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity
AFAIK everything was dropped in the end, and people went back to using audacity
Wait, what happened to Multi MC? I still use it whenever the want to play modded Minecraft returns
I actually had to look it up as I couldn't remember why I made the first switch. PolyMC was forked from MultiMC after they dropped third-party modpack support. Then there was some drama with one of the devs of PolyMC, spawning Prism Launcher
I really don't understand why PolyMC forked... Multi MC still has several third party mod packs available
https://github.com/MultiMC/Launcher/issues/4102
I love how well the PolyMC -> PrismLauncher transition went. It’s great that the asshole owning it didn’t just spew transphobic hate, but also removed the contribution rights to all other people, leading them to immediately flock to an alternative.