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Opening the source code of the Galaxy client, or parts of it would allow the community to contribute to the client development and avoid multiple unofficial clients to lag behind the official one.
And please don't put it on Github. That site is more offline than it is online.
Please do it :)
Please open source it so I can fix the search bug I opened two tickets for nearly 10 years ago.
Would be amazing and very fitting for its nature as a multi-platform launcher. They recently said they started working on creating a Linux version of the client. Opening up the source code would honestly just take a lot of work off of them.
That would be awesome.
+1!
Ze względu na wykup GOG Sp. z O.O. mam nadzieję, że pan Marcin Kiciński zainwestuje jeszcze parę groszy w rozwój i zleci stworzenie klienta GOG Galaxy pod systemy GNU/Linux.
+1
looks, like devs aren't very interested.. :(
Enserio no pueden hacer su app de codigo abierto?Esto haria que mucha gente apoyara al proyecto, añadiendo nuevas funciones, optimizandola y corrigiendo muchos bugs.Pero parece que ni ustedes tienen un plan de desarrollo de la app, porque siempre nos entregan actualizaciones mediocres con simples "arreglos" de bugs. Una completa decepcion.
Where are we at?
we need it
+1 GOG, lead the way!
Open source and DRM free games go together so well, I absolutely support releasing the galaxy client as open source software, although hardly any games themselves are. But in my opinion the platform should lead by example.
+1I think open source will benefit GOG and users
Bump. It would be a win/win for all. Community will make it better and even create aproper Linux version, and GOG just profits from it even more. There is nothing to hide in this client after all. Just do it, seriously.
Would give me incentive to actually use Galaxy client at all
I find that petition for GOG support on Linux! www.change.org/p/official-gog-com-support-heroic-games-launcher?redirect=false
It's funny. All they had to do was release the source code under GPL or any other Free Software license. The community would port it to other operating systems for free. But apparently that's too hard for them.
GOG confirmed after 9 years of broken promises the Galaxy will never come to Linux: www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/07/gog-finally-remove-the-false-qin-progressq-note-about-gog-galaxy-for-linux/
Nice (but risky?) alternative to homebread Lin version
Unfortunately GoG has nothing yet to announce according to their support team. Neither OS nor Linux
Well.. Maybe FOSS is not always good for everything...
Why hasn't this been done yet?, it would do wonders for the user experience and would make GOG stand out from the rest. Release Galaxy under GPL v2 or v3!.
Like Bethesda's modding, AGPL-3 would allow us to make more kinds of add-ons and protections, which would also give the community a Potentially big boost while helping you guys out :)
Like even just posting the last update on Github under the Affero f-OSS License (SPDX identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later) would be perfect for the whole FCK-DRM initiative of the community :) I mean there's always the '(C) All Rights Reserved' header you can use instead as a compromise but wouldn't really help us make versions for other operating systems
***QUESTION TO ANY COMMENTERS:***Have you tried asking them on any *other place* than here? and if so what was the response they gave?
Given how few updates there have been lately, you might as well leave it up to the community to pick this up. In the meantime, I'll be using Playnite.
Please GOG team, make Galaxy open source. Users will be able to do a great job with Galaxy and promote it significantly.
This would even be helpful to the release for Linux one if GPLv3 (or 2 and any later version+) license and community could help with things :3 Has been said to come for a long time now <3
It's about time!
This would be an absolute godsend for people everywhere.
Down the page is mention of my suggestion: integrate with Lutris. Galaxy and Lutris should be working together in a FOSS arrangement. Lutris has enormous community support, so you basically get an army of volunteers figuring out the hacks to make your Windows-only games work on Linux.Don't just open-source Galaxy; throw your support behind Lutris and integrate Lutris recipes into Galaxy for a huge compatibility boost.
It could be ideal, could fix some of the problems people have now, be more secure and such, open to more plataforms, i don't know if this could go in hand with the Free-DRM policy GOG have, but it's pretty much close, best wish!
GPLv3 (or 2 and any later version) would be IdealI coulda sworn this made it to Mac Os so not sure why it's marked as in progress but seemingly ignored us asking after
+1 It would be more trustworthy and easier to port on other platforms (GNU/Linux, BSD,..) even not officially.
FossThe GPLv3 whoud bee nice
FOSS rules. The marketing would easily offset possible downsides. People into GOG tend to be admirers of this culture, privacy-conscious, and similar. Plus, it would cather to purists still resisting a digital store. And yeah, imagine your own customers improving your product for free?
Could easily offset the cost of development and such by doing this.
they dont seem to care just download minigalaxy it works just as good as the offical one does
would be so niceand it'd let us do the linux client ahah
That'd be awesome. Also, in response to some others in the comments: no, open-sourcing code does not make software insecure, it actually makes it more secure by allowing everyone to audit it in some way, not to mention making it more ethical and private. Projects including Android, Linux, Firefox, Chromium, VLC, Gimp, OBS, LibreOffice, Signal, OpenSSH, Apache, and countless others are all free and open source software (FOSS). Linux is used by countless organizations, governments, and businesses; it's even the main OS used on the ISS. It's safe to say that if it wasn't for FOSS, the internet, and the world, wouldn't be anything like it is today.
Open-source is the ideal, but if that's impossible, at least flatpak it if you ever release it on Linux! A sandboxed closed-source app is better than nothing.
GPLv2 Only or MIT
@Hmz27: the GPLv3 allows the use of DRM, but due to the nature of the licence, they'd need to be GPL'd too, greatly reducing their efficiency.