this is what i thought too, since it's just a settlement between Tropic Haze and Nintendo rather than a more broad ruling. but somebody linked this settlement elsewhere here and it adds up to distribution of the Yuzu code likely being a DMCA violation [1]
FINDINGS OF FACT
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3. Yuzu, a video game emulator, circumvents the Technological Measures and allows for the play of encrypted Nintendo Switch games on devices other than a Nintendo Switch. For example, Yuzu executes code that decrypts Nintendo Switch video games (including component files) immediately before and during runtime using unauthorized copies of Nintendo Switch cryptographic keys. Yuzu is primarily designed to circumvent and play Nintendo Switch games. In the ordinary course of its operation with those games, Yuzu requires the Nintendo Switch’s proprietary cryptographic keys to gain access to and play Nintendo Switch games.
4. Developing or distributing software, including Yuzu, that in its ordinary course functions only when cryptographic keys are integrated without authorization, violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s prohibition on trafficking in devices that circumvent effective technological measures, because the software is primarily designed for the purpose of circumventing technological measures. Id. § 1201(a)(2)(A).
but, then, this document appears to be a draft ("proposed final judgement"). so things are still weirdly ambiguous for all the 3rd parties currently dealing with Yuzu :(
Doesn't change the fact that yuzu itself is legal. Last I checked, Judgements don't override law, especially ones drafted by nintendo's crackpot lawyers.
