Homebrew Tinfoil.io - Open source?!?!

[Qubarf]

I can't seem to find where, if they have, on github this version of tinfoil is: tinfoil.io?
Is it even open-source?

 

[Idontknowwhattoputhere]

I can't seem to find where, if they have, on github this version of tinfoil is: tinfoil.io?
Is it even open-source?

No
None of blawars tools tinfoil,lithium,mmlinks and his shit website are open source
//thread

 

[Qubarf]

No
None of blawars tools tinfoil,lithium,mmlinks and his shit website are open source
//thread

Oh, wow! Did not know that.

 

[Draxzelex]

No
None of blawars tools tinfoil,lithium,mmlinks and his shit website are open source
//thread

Don't mean to play devil's advocate here but Incognito is open-source and last I checked is one of blawar's "tools".

 

[Idontknowwhattoputhere]

Don't mean to play devil's advocate here but Incognito is open-source and last I checked is one of blawar's "tools".

I was highlighting the main tools

 

[blawar]

Don't mean to play devil's advocate here but Incognito is open-source and last I checked is one of blawar's "tools".

nut is open source too

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I was highlighting the main tools

I would argue nut is one of my main tools, and is open source.

I could open source the website, but its most T-SQL which few people know or can run here anyway.

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I was highlighting the main tools

tinfoil's old source was open source: https://github.com/tiliarou/sysnut

 

[nero99]

who cares if something is open source or not.

 

[andyhappypants]

who cares if something is open source or not.

I couldn’t give two shits either, even if I had the source for anything I wouldn’t know what to do with it, I’m just an end user of most of these tools and they work great.

 

[Lacius]

who cares if something is open source or not.

A lot of people do. Some people refuse to use nothing but open source software.

I'm just not one of those people.

 

[Qubarf]

Huh, I am probably misunderstanding but wasn't half of the war over sx os on how they refused to open-source their CFW?
(The other half was probably the refusal to give credit)

 

[Lacius]

Huh, I am probably misunderstanding but wasn't half of the war over sx os on how they refused to open-source their CFW?
(The other half was probably the refusal to give credit)

They illegally violated certain open source requirements when they used other people's software. If they hadn't used other people's software, nobody would have complained about it being closed source.

The other half is the embedded brick code.

 

[Qubarf]

They illegally violated certain open source requirements when they used other people's software. If they hadn't used other people's software, nobody would have complained about it being closed source.

The other half is the embedded brick code.

Ah, ok, Thanks!

 

[RHOPKINS13]

who cares if something is open source or not.

There are multiple reasons to care whether a project is open source.

For one, it makes it easier for other people to suggest ways of making the project better. Even if their changes aren't accepted into the main branch, they can still make a fork of it and change it for their own purposes. Of course, there's a downside to this - it makes it easier for companies like Team Xecuter to steal code and use it in their commercial products, like SX OS.

Two, transparency. It allows you to look through the source code and make sure it's not doing anything you don't want it to, like bricking your console or sending your prodinfo off somewhere for somebody else to abuse on Nintendo's servers. Even if you're not a coder, you can skim through a lot of the code and get a pretty good idea of how it works.

 

[MasterZoilus]

:feelsbadman:

don't listen to anybody!! The minute you try to please EVERYBODY you are setting yourself up for instant failure. If at least 3 out of 4 people are happy with your work, then that's great, throw yourself a party. Anything higher than that percentage is .... fantastic. And MOST of the people I've seen not just here but doing tuts around youtube and forums and what not, use YOUR stuff. So don't worry about it to much only worry and pay attention to that 75%+ that actually are appreciative, thats your base, everything you do is for THEM! f*k all others.

 

[Lacius]

don't listen to anybody!! The minute you try to please EVERYBODY you are setting yourself up for instant failure. If at least 3 out of 4 people are happy with your work, then that's great, throw yourself a party. Anything higher than that percentage is .... fantastic. And MOST of the people I've seen not just here but doing tuts around youtube and forums and what not, use YOUR stuff. So don't worry about it to much only worry and pay attention to that 75%+ that actually are appreciative, thats your base, everything you do is for THEM! f*k all others.

I assume there's a good reason it's no longer open source, like preventing TX from stealing it.

 

[blawar]

I assume there's a good reason it's no longer open source, like preventing TX from stealing it.

Tinfoil / DZ started out open source, then I briefly took the source code down to refactor the repo (the project was originally a sys module installer, but morphed into homebrew hence the name sysnut) and remove copyrighted files (mostly fonts and images). As soon as I took it down, prominent members of this community, including @jakibaki DEMANDED that I re-post the source code because they alleged I used adubbz tinfoil GPL code in my project (I did not, as anyone who browsed the public repo could see). I refused, and the accusations of code theft went on for months. Even GBATEMP staff falsely accused me of violating GPL and deleted / locked my threads, and the only way to prove I wasnt was to publish the code (LOL) or send the code to a GBATEMP mod (LOL). I chose option B and told them all to go fuck themselves, and that now tinfoil / dz will be closed source forever. I stayed true to my word.

The original code is here, where you can see it does not use adubbz code: https://github.com/tiliarou/sysnut

This is why we cant have nice things.

 

[Qubarf]

Woah sysnut, as is background nsp downloading? I have always wondered why that wasn't a feature in tinfoil...

 

[sj33]

who cares if something is open source or not.

If software is open source, then the code can be built upon and improved by the community. If it’s closed source, it’s essentially useless once the developer stops developing it. The vast majority of the emulators that you use would not be possible without the open source developments of other projects.

You will care about open source when TX stop developing SX and nobody can do anything to keep developing it.

 

[Qubarf]

If software is open source, then the code can be built upon and improved by the community. If it’s closed source, it’s essentially useless once the developer stops developing it. The vast majority of the emulators that you use would not be possible without the open source developments of other projects.

You will care about open source when TX stop developing SX and nobody can do anything to keep developing it.

Haven't they already stopped developing sx os?

 

[jakibaki]

Tinfoil / DZ started out open source, then I briefly took the source code down to refactor the repo (the project was originally a sys module installer, but morphed into homebrew hence the name sysnut) and remove copyrighted files (mostly fonts and images). As soon as I took it down, prominent members of this community, including @jakibaki DEMANDED that I re-post the source code because they alleged I used adubbz tinfoil GPL code in my project (I did not, as anyone who browsed the public repo could see). I refused, and the accusations of code theft went on for months. Even GBATEMP staff falsely accused me of violating GPL and deleted / locked my threads, and the only way to prove I wasnt was to publish the code (LOL) or send the code to a GBATEMP mod (LOL). I chose option B and told them all to go fuck themselves, and that now tinfoil / dz will be closed source forever. I stayed true to my word.

The original code is here, where you can see it does not use adubbz code: https://github.com/tiliarou/sysnut

This is why we cant have nice things.

Will you stop spreading lies about me please?
I was always with you on the point that you don't have to release your source.
I think it's stupid that you don't but I never said that you have to.