Open source projects do not grow by themselves. It requires serious effort from dedicated developers to develop and maintain applications as complicated as an emulator. Yuzu's developers are banned from doing so and I don't see how this incident could help bringing more developers.

[–] tsugu@slrpnk.net 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure there will be developers capable enough to keep it working on new operating systems. Games that worked with it until now will keep on working, and that's what matters to most people anyways. No need for major changes to the codebase.

[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

to keep it working on new operating systems

That's really easier said than done

[–] unfnknblvbl 4 points 8 months ago

Yeah, of all the forks and mirrors I've checked out, none of them even have the Android builds. Obviously I've not checked them all, but still...

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.de 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

What do you mean with they are banned? Who's gonna stop them from contributing to one of the many Yuzu forks? What are they gonna do about it?

[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 15 points 8 months ago

A permanent injunction is entered against Defendant enjoining it and its members, agents, servants, employees, independent contractors, successors, assigns, and all those acting in privity or under its control from:

a. Offering to the public, providing, marketing, advertising, promoting, selling, testing, hosting, cloning, distributing, or otherwise trafficking in Yuzu or any source code or features of Yuzu

IANAL but that sounds like the court is banning those developers from working on Yuzu. I mean, you can still try to work on project that is 90% Yuzu but with another name but I feel like your lawyer would advise against that.

[–] Hate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 8 months ago

Nintendo would stop them. If yuzu devs want to go to court, they can continue development.

Yuzu devs could do it anonymously, but that's gl on not doxxing yourself, at risk of lawsuit.

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

this doesn't apply to hundreds of their contributors tho right

[–] Trarmp@feddit.nl 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What if I told you that throwing more developers at a problem != that problem getting solved faster?

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

there are hundreds of open issues on ryujinx.
so there are hundreds of problems with zero developers to solve them.