Nintendo 3DS Emulator Lemonade Caught Stealing Code From Citra

According to Pablo, Citra, also a 3DS emulator, which has been in development since 2013 and was discontinued by Yuzu back in March following their legal battle with Nintendo, was licensed with the GPL license, requiring everyone using the licensed code to keep it open source and credit the authors. However, Lemonade didn’t fulfill this requirement, neglecting to credit the author of the code they were using, who happened to be Pablo.

Giving the benefit of the doubt, the author created an issue in Lemonade’s GitHub repository regarding the GPL matter. Soon after that, more commits lacking proper credit appeared in Lemonade’s repo, this time from another former Citra developer, gpucode, suggesting that the absence of proper crediting is unlikely to be an oversight, coincidence, or an honest mistake.