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GitHub is not going to close your account. Like all other repo closures, it'd take a DMCA notice from Nintendo to close the repo, which is unavoidable by law (no matter where you host it, The Lawyers will come).

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By american law. While the principles are pretty much the same worldwide, the implementations vary.

That's the relevant law though, right?

> no matter where you host it, The Lawyers will come

Unless a Github employee happens to have a personal difference of political opinion with one of the committers.

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