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Bug#963225: ITP: prince-of-persia -- SDL port of the classic Prince of Persia game

From	Kees Cook <kees@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject	Bug#963225: ITP: prince-of-persia -- SDL port of the classic Prince of Persia game
Date	2020-07-29 20:50 +0200
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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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Bug#963225: ITP: prince-of-persia -- SDL port of the classic Prince of Persia game Kees Cook <kees@debian.org> - 2020-06-21 01:50 +0200
  Bug#963225: ITP: prince-of-persia -- SDL port of the classic Prince of Persia game Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2020-06-22 15:00 +0200
    Bug#963225: ITP: prince-of-persia -- SDL port of the classic Prince of Persia game Kees Cook <kees@debian.org> - 2020-07-29 20:50 +0200

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