Our Discord integration violates the GPL

[qaisjp]

Describe the bug

We cannot link with Discord's Game SDK as the Game SDK is not available under a free license.

Describe the solution you'd like

Use the legacy discord-rpc library instead, which is available under a free license (MIT).

This issue also pauses any mass rollouts of binaries until it has been resolved.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Contact all historical contributors and change our license. Doing this is not practical at this point in time—it will take a long time, and it's faster to just change our code.

Version

245551c

Additional context

Discord announcement of the Game SDK with extensive bikeshedding on this matter: discord/discord-rpc#290 (comment)

Relevant conversation in #mta.dev: https://discordapp.com/channels/278474088903606273/366384007535001612/697937233151524884

[Disinterpreter]

Use the legacy discord-rpc library instead, which is available under a free license (MIT).

The problem is discord-rpc is an archived project and it can be contain some vulnerabilities.

[0x416c69]

Just tell me what you decide, I don't know anything about this statement though:

The problem is discord-rpc is an archived project and it can be contain some vulnerabilities.

I have wrote my discord integration in such a way that it is totally easy to switch back to discord-rpc so just say the words, we'll get rid of trash from MTA repo in an instant.

[qaisjp]

Yes please. Down the line we can fork discord-rpc or move to a community fork.

[0x416c69]

I'm a little busy, how much time we have for 1.6 release approximately?

[qaisjp]

Last week I would have said 1.6 in about June/July.

But this week we've been thinking (not confirmed or finalised - no decision has been made) about releasing 1.5.8 mid-May, and 1.6 end of year. (The 1.6 milestone will be renamed to 1.5.8.)

[dartic2k]

Any update on the 1.6 release date?

[Timic3]

Documenting IPC (which GameSDK uses) is planned, which should bring a library with a better license than GameSDK. Or well, just directly implement IPC connection, which might seem easier.