Submitted 1 month ago by thingsiplay@beehaw.org to gaming@beehaw.org
https://github.com/GreemDev/Ryujinx
Looks like owner of Ryujinx changed and now is developed by someone else? The top contributor for this is gdkchan, the previous owner and main developer. So this is not simply a fork, but changing ownership of the original repository. Is that right?
It makes sense, because what happened previously is that gdkchan got a message (or visit) from Nintendo to stop working on the emulator. That’s all. There was no cease and desist to the entire project, or anything like that (unlike with Yuzu).
I think the “owner” is up for grabs since the original repo was DMCA’d. All I know is Nintendo will be playing a game a whack a mole for quite a while, it’s very easy to fork a repo.
As far as I’m aware the original repo wasn’t DMCA’d. It was just taken down by the original Owner after Nintendo asked them to. This seems to be why these new “hard forks” haven’t gotten taken down.
Careful those ten does might Suyu
mox@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
It’s a bit of a leap to say the “owner” changed. Ryujinx is MIT licensed, allowing anyone to clone the original code locally, build upon it, and publish it to a public host. Looks like that’s what happened here. I don’t think the original repo was renamed or moved to another user’s account.
The top contributor is gdkchan presumably because gdkchan’s commit history is still there.
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 1 month ago
I thought the contributors list would be reset when uploading to a new location. At least that’s for forks, so that was my assumption without checking actually. I mean for the forks, gdkchan still have the commit history too, like any other contributor.