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mr_MADAFAKA @lemmy.ml

1y ago

MineClone 2 will switch to a new name, VoxeLibre

git.minetest.land /MineClone2/MineClone2/issues/4235

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Don’t really roll off the tongue does it?
- It does for me. It's a portmanteau of voxel and libre wit the last l of the first word and first l of the 2nd word shared. If you don't pause at the caps and just roll straight through. It rolls just fine and is rather clever.
  
  I think Libre in general is an awkward sound for me
  
  Vox-libre
- It really doesn't, yeah. But the vocal minority decided.
  
  It was done by a poll on Discord, Matrix, and our issue tracker. I think over 120 votes were cast. It was a polling majority...

Why did they want a new name?
- Might be to reduce risk of legal action by Microsoft (not that they'd have a legal leg to stand on, but that doesn't seem to matter these days)
  
  You can copy my homework but don’t make it obvious… MineClone
  
  Submits a photocopy of someone's homework to the teacher
- Because MineClone2 is a dreadful name, and unfortunately, when ever anyone tries to differ anything slightly, a head can be taken clean off. The project doesn't want to be a full clone, but heavily inspired by, but with it's own direction. It needed to go.

yeah I wanted to try out minetest but the fact that every single mod that exists for it is in the aur pissed me off cause I dont want to parse through 50 mod names to find the binaries and base data

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