Hi Ben, On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 01:53:09PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2020-06-20 at 16:38 -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Kees Cook <k...@debian.org> > > > > * Package name : prince-of-persia > > Version : 1.20 > > Upstream Author : Dávid Nagy > > * URL : https://github.com/NagyD/SDLPoP > > * License : GPL-3+ > > I don't see how this is possible.
Why not? There have been all kinds of ports (JS, Roku, etc), and this one was done explicitly GPL from the start. > > > Programming Lang: C > > Description : SDL port of the classic Prince of Persia game > [...] > > So this is a derivative work of Prince of Persia (the DOS version > apparently), isn't it? It is a reimplementation based on reverse engineering of the DOS binaries. -- Kees Cook @debian.org
