Very nice!

This is released under GPL.

I wonder, who is K1n9_Duk3? Does he have the rights to actually release this, and put it under GPL?

What does "reconstructed" mean? Is this disassembled? And if so, is it really ok to put this under GPL then?

zamadatix 14 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Looking through the readme, it seems this is a "matching decomp" type project which does not bundle assets (i.e. those get pulled from your local copy during the build).

I'm no lawyer, and this is no claim that it is/isn't one way or the other, but Super Mario 64 had a CC0 1.0 licensed decomp in 2019 with PC port in 2020 and Nintendo vehemently chased compiled copies of the game being shared and videos of the ports on YouTube but never went after the actual source code repo for either the decomp or port (which do not contain any of the assets). Of course there is nothing saying Nintendo can't wait 6 years and then issue action (just look how long they put up with Yuzu/Ryujinx before going after the decryption and other arguments just before the Switch 2 launched), but they were certainly aware of it when they took action against the resulting binaries/videos and didn't try to touch the code repo yet for one reason or another.

I expect some big court case to happen about this style of project within the next decade. Maybe not as big as Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc., but still one that makes the news a fews times and gives direct precedent rather than comparisons to similarish cases.

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viraptor 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's not legal unless the person had the rights to begin with. It may be legal for a clean room reimplementation, but not a decompilation project like this. iD/Apogee can totally request a takedown, so I wouldn't recommend republishing that...

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Randomno 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> It's not legal

Based on what? Afaik decompilation is a grey area and projects that enforce clean-room design do it to stay out of this grey area.

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bluGill 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Copyright violation. If you write a book and I translate it to a different language you own the copyright on my translation. (except poetry which is artistic enough that it cannot be translated and so your version inspires me but I can't just translate it ). Decompilation doesn't have enough creative work to call it anything other than a translation.

I'm not a lawyer. I'm reasonably sure I'm right so the above is good enough for discussion, but if you need legal advice see a lawyer.

	▲	cannonpr an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Actually you should look up the info there, you actually don’t which is what a lot of fansubs rely on, they mostly only will own your translation if they chose to formally translate and publish commercially a translation in that country. If they don’t, you can distribute your translation for free. There is a lot of variability on this per country too, with very interesting laws in greece and germany in particular.