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

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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.

>   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?

Only the Apple II version seems to have been re-released under a
vaguely free licence, and even that doesn't explicitly allow
redistribution.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Hoare's Law of Large Problems:
   Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out.

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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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