@xemnas - Have you read the license? It only deals with copyrights for code. Rather than the strict copyright most work falls under by default, the GPL essentially grants rights for a broad range of copying behavior. It doesn't abolish any copyright to code (like all CC licenses except for CC0). You'll still see individuals asserting copyright in the licenses for GPL projects (iirc Dolphin is copyrighted to the Dolphin team). The GPL basically gives many people the right to copy code, but in all legal respects the copyrights are still active (just hard to claim infringement since the license is so permissive).
Any assets that are not code have to have permissive licenses as well, else they have strict copyright laws governing how they can be copied. You see this happening all the time with OSS games. Music and graphics are still copyright of the original author (hence allowing for a chance to profit from their works) but the code is completely GPLed. You can still call them OSS projects because of that. It's not about saying "You can't distribute this program because this icon is copyrighted" it's "You can't distribute this icon, do whatever you want with.the code/program within the GPL". The point was to aim for something that would either force mamario to deal with legal pressure, or make it so that what he changes to.avoid legal issues (anyone can make an icon) identifies his builds as unofficial (i.e. won't have the same look).
Trademark disputes have to take into account to what end the trademarked phrase was used. Unless wiiu.com actually tried to pose as Nintendo and sell consoles, it can operate as an enthusiast Nintendo site or as a website for Uncle Chuck's Chicken & Laundry or whatever else. If it's not trying to commercially one-up the legit trademark owners, generally these sites can exist (under U.S. law anyway). But a site that tries to sell you jerseys knockoffs or fake Prada bags is going to get in trouble trademark wise if their domain names include infringing trademarks. It's theoretically possible to hit mamario on this because he directly profits from a site in competition to the legitimate trademark holders. OSS projects rarely assert trademarks agressively (defensively yes, see Python recently) and since the official site is losing money to someone actively working in an unethical manner, it would be more than justified on our part to defensively assert trademark claims. I'm not saying this is the one true path the Dolphin Team has to take, but it is a valid one that could be made (with time, effort, and a bit of cash).
Any assets that are not code have to have permissive licenses as well, else they have strict copyright laws governing how they can be copied. You see this happening all the time with OSS games. Music and graphics are still copyright of the original author (hence allowing for a chance to profit from their works) but the code is completely GPLed. You can still call them OSS projects because of that. It's not about saying "You can't distribute this program because this icon is copyrighted" it's "You can't distribute this icon, do whatever you want with.the code/program within the GPL". The point was to aim for something that would either force mamario to deal with legal pressure, or make it so that what he changes to.avoid legal issues (anyone can make an icon) identifies his builds as unofficial (i.e. won't have the same look).
Trademark disputes have to take into account to what end the trademarked phrase was used. Unless wiiu.com actually tried to pose as Nintendo and sell consoles, it can operate as an enthusiast Nintendo site or as a website for Uncle Chuck's Chicken & Laundry or whatever else. If it's not trying to commercially one-up the legit trademark owners, generally these sites can exist (under U.S. law anyway). But a site that tries to sell you jerseys knockoffs or fake Prada bags is going to get in trouble trademark wise if their domain names include infringing trademarks. It's theoretically possible to hit mamario on this because he directly profits from a site in competition to the legitimate trademark holders. OSS projects rarely assert trademarks agressively (defensively yes, see Python recently) and since the official site is losing money to someone actively working in an unethical manner, it would be more than justified on our part to defensively assert trademark claims. I'm not saying this is the one true path the Dolphin Team has to take, but it is a valid one that could be made (with time, effort, and a bit of cash).