Re: Bug#1001894: ITP: spacecadetpinball -- Decompilation and port of "3D Pinball for Windows - Space Cadet"

["Andrej Shadura" <andrew@shadura.me>]

Hi,

On Sat, 18 Dec 2021, at 17:03, Lucy M wrote:
> * Package name    : spacecadetpinball
>   Version         : 2.0
>   Upstream Author : Andrey Muzychenko
> * URL             : https://github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball
> * License         : MIT
>   Programming Lang: C++
>   Description     : Decompilation and port of "3D Pinball for Windows - 
> Space Cadet"
>
> Reverse Engineered Decompilation of "3D Pinball for Windows - Space Cadet",
> Ported to be cross-platform.
>
> Doesn't contain the original (proprietary) data files, but requires them to run.
> These are to be sourced seperatly. and placed in a relevent dir.
> Free assets do not exist yet, but may be possible in future (upstream issue #96)

I’m afraid the fact this source has been obtained as the result of a decompilation of the original proprietary binary means this project cannot be legally under the MIT license. If this is true, it cannot be included in Debian main or contrib, and possibly not even in non-free.

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Cheers,
  Andrej