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TIL there is an open source port of Prince of Persia (github.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Based on disassembly of the PC DOS version, this port runs on PC, Mac and Linux and features many enhancements such as quick saving and the ability to mod the game including level design.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your changes can be gpl licensed, similar to how a rom hack can be licensed however you want.

Read the GPL and what it has to say about derivative works which this undeniably is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've been in the open source software world for multiple decades. I am well aware of the gpl and what it has to say about derivative works.

You seem a little confused however, though I feel like you are just desperately trying to wrangle an angle where you can totes win and you were never wrong. It's really annoying to get into a conversation online like that.

Anyway, incase anyone else gets here, this guy is just endlessly wrong. Ignore.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not wrong. You cannot just slap the GPL on disassembled proprietary software. That's a fact. Ask your lawyer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

THE CHANGES oh lawd.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

This is not a separately distributed patch set as LAME was in the beginning. That's GPL slapped on the combined work. Not really that hard to understand.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

just desperately trying to wrangle an angle where you can totes win

this guy is just endlessly wrong

Pity you haven't made an effort to prove what you're saying and seem to be just desperately trying to wrangle an angle where you can totes win.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I'm the original guy, I provided the link to the legal opinion pdf.