Questions about spacet cadet reverse engineering
Hi all,
recently I came across a reverse-engineered Space Cadet clone (the Windows XP game) [1] .
An according WNPP bug was filed some time ago [2] .
I'm unsure whether the program could be redistributed because it's just reverse-engineered or not at all because it was derived from a non-free source. See [3] for some details. The project states that "C pseudo code [from decompliation] ... was converted to C++ ...".
From #debian-devel:
" I'm not quite
sure, but I would think that either a reverse engineered codebase does
*not* infringe the original's copyright, in which case it can be shipped
(in main even, I'd say), or it *does* infringe, in which case it cannot
be shipped at all (not even in non-free)."
I'd like to ask some guidance on this. Imho this would make a nice addition to debian (if it is legally possible).
Regards
Matthias Geiger
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