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The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask just got an unofficial PC port (www.dsogaming.com)
submitted 6 months ago by Toes@ani.social to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

It looks like the project is really careful not to include copyrighted materials in their distribution.

Source code automatically generated from copyrighted binary code is a derivative of copyrighted code, though. It's like taking a copyrighted book and running it through Google Translate and then clean up the sentences manually. You could be lucky that a publisher might not care about a translation into Icelandic but if you were to auto-translate a French version of a book into English and try to distribute it in the US, you'd probably get in trouble even if you leave out all graphic artwork.