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You're treading a fine line Mr. Tim Apple (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

https://twitter.com/Zetta_330/status/1765081419687371165 Look for yourself, they used someone else’s code, it’s technically not illegal according to the CLA of GitHub...

It has nothing to do with some made up CLA that GitHub doesn't even have ರ⁠_⁠ರ , it's a matter of the license the project is under. Which is open source, e.g. GPL, Apache, MIT, etc. all of which doesn't prevent the use of the code in other open source projects, especially when consent was already given before hand.

...but that’s not relevant to DCMA.

You bet your ass it isn't, because the code from Ryujinx doesn't infringe on Nintendo copyright either.

DCMA

It's DMCA.

... It requires them to reverse engineer the code for an emulator, which they didn’t do.

How the shit do you think emulators are created without reverse engineering? You can't be serious.

Please tell me what they did right to claim game preservation…?

They used clean room reverse engineering which is a form of independent creation and already has decades of precedent in its favor.