Also worth noting is that while the "Early Access" changes were not kept secret, the Yuzu team went out of its way to make it harder than necessary to replicate

Also worth noting is that while the "Early Access" changes were not kept secret, the Yuzu team went out of its way to make it harder than necessary to replicate an equivalent build from the public Git repo (there was no public EA branch, just a bunch of PRs with a specific tag) and aggressively disapproved of anyone actually forking the project or providing unofficial builds. They couldn't actually stop anyone under the license, but anyone doing so risked being blackballed/banned from official spaces, and in one case a Yuzu developer allegedly even altered the copyright notice on a contribution because it referenced a provider of unofficial EA-equivalent builds [1]. [1] https://old.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/ljxnvi/yuzu_stole_code/ https://old.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/ljxnvi/yuzu_stol...