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Suyu, a potential replacement for Yuzu (gitlab.com)

submitted 8 months ago by DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[-] Zink@pawb.social 107 points 8 months ago

We're going to be seeing a lot of these. Until people decide on which fork gets to be 2zu, don't expect anything from these.

[-] kib48@lemm.ee 37 points 8 months ago

inb4 a new fork called 2zu shows up lmao

[-] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 24 points 8 months ago

At least one of these does need active testers and devs, tho.

[-] Grym772@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

True, at the very least, the sheer amount of them means that more people will be able to get yuzu while development is at a standstill.

[-] N00dle@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Since all these forks are based of yuzu souce code and the developers admitted it was primarily for piracy, doesn't this make these all an easy target to take down? I think this might prevent a true successor with active development from emerging.

[-] Zink@pawb.social 14 points 8 months ago

Just because they said it doesn't mean the new use of the code has the same purpose. Perhaps this fork can claim to be for homebrew apps, for example.

[-] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

No. Their statement as part of a settlement has no bearing on unrelated parties. It's not precedent.

And the code is already open source, so anyone and everyone has full rights to do anything they want within the license. No one is capable of DMCAing it (or rather, anyone is, but the author can trivially point to the license giving them the full right to modify and redistribute in a counterclaim).

[-] UnculturedSwine@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

I don't get why people are down-voting you. It's a perfectly legit question that I'm thinking about myself. I'm not a lawyer but there would be ways to shield yourself legally I'm sure.