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Yuzu & Citra devs fold to Nintendo's demands | Pay $2.3million to settle, take down github, domains, patreon, discord, with immediate effect. (m.youtube.com)

submitted 8 months ago by merthyr1831@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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A sad day for emulation and open source advocates, and a reminder that Nintendo can and will destroy you if they see fit.

Hopefully their works will live in the saved repos just as ReVanced was able to live on after YouTube shut the original project down.

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[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Since there's now legal precedent, and GitHub already has the signatures of the project code, they will simply now close down any fork that matches the code signatures to avoid getting sued by Nintendo as well.

Hopefully someone forked it to a completely different self-hosted GitHub-like instance or the other GitHub alternatives.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

The repository removal was voluntary and done by the Yuzu team. GitHub doesn't have to do anything and won't do anything. Even when they receive a DMCA takedown, they only block forks made through GitHub's "fork" button.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

There's no legal precedent, it was settled out of court