Historically, efforts to create original games and tools, port over open source emulators, and explore a game console’s hardware and software have been generally lumped together under the ban…
Tldr: Martin complained the code was stolen/reverse engineered from Nintendo SDK, also copied from RTEMS, which is an open source project with BSD 2 clause license. For the latter, there’s considerable resistance to admitting that.
Frankly, if the 2nd case, of RTEMS code being used, is true, just do the proper attribution and be done with it. I don’t think even Nintendo would go after the project today for the use of RE SDK code
Tldr: Martin complained the code was stolen/reverse engineered from Nintendo SDK, also copied from RTEMS, which is an open source project with BSD 2 clause license. For the latter, there’s considerable resistance to admitting that.
Frankly, if the 2nd case, of RTEMS code being used, is true, just do the proper attribution and be done with it. I don’t think even Nintendo would go after the project today for the use of RE SDK code