Bug#963225: ITP: prince-of-persia -- SDL port of the classic Prince of Persia game
- To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
- Cc: 963225@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Bug#963225: ITP: prince-of-persia -- SDL port of the classic Prince of Persia game
- From: Kees Cook <kees@debian.org>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 11:39:48 -0700
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20200729183948.GD12622@outflux.net>
- Reply-to: Kees Cook <kees@debian.org>, 963225@bugs.debian.org
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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 <kees@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
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