The Wii homebrew channel has been archived, citing Nintendo SDK code inside a library
GitHub - fail0verflow/hbc: The Homebrew Channel - open source edition
Apparently all Wii homebrew uses this library as well.
So not even shut down by Nintendo, shut down by someone who went “waaah waaah this is copyright infringement”?
Yeah man you’re making the “Pirate Games” machine of course there’s copyright infringement involved I’m shocked you ever thought there wasn’t
“Program on Wii uses Wii code” no shit? Of course it would. It’s a program on the Wii!
Am I missing something here?
yeah, this looks like an actual violation of trust around not stealing the work of other people in the community of hackers and not just "lol corpo got fucked haha". i would not care if they only used nintendo code, but not citing your sources when they're other open source projects is just rude.
they committed the software equivalent of plagiarism against an open source volunteer project, if the original post is to be believed.
Ah okay yes that’s the part I misunderstood, that is fucked. When it’s not costing you anything or limiting you just attribute credit ffs
Yeah, you should credit them, but throwing a tantrum about not being credited is bourgeois behavior.
Yeah see that’s where it really loses me, like I’ll be honest I just don’t think plagiarism is that big of a deal. It’s bad sure. But like, it’s not theft, it’s just a dick move. This seems like such an overreaction.
You don't have to take Nintendo's code to make homebrew and stuff, its just easier. Ideally devs would have looked at what the apps did and reproduced the functionality, without copying the exact code. Doing it this way opens them up to DMCA claims in a way doing it properly wouldn't.
Like all the homebrew stuff for switch, if Nintendo could take it down they would. But they can't, it doesn't include copywritten code of theirs.
Maybe my confusion about that lies in the fact that I’ve only ever used homebrew for piracy?
Like okay you managed to do all this without using a single line of Nintendo’s code, now I can play this completely illegitimate copy of Mario Kart without breaking Nintendo’s copyright.
The only reason to not use Nintendo’s code is to avoid getting caught, and seeing as this news is only coming out almost 20 years after the Wii when the homebrew scene has mostly moved on anyway means that wasn’t too big of a concern as long as no one say, in charge of the Wii homebrew software throws a temper tantrum about it.