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A comment on Recovering Nintendo’s Lost SimCity for the NES. Parent comment

Re:Recovering Nintendo’s Lost SimCity for the NES by Someone on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @03:54PM (#18764795)
”They could only potentially contribute bug fixes, and licensing their commits back to you sounds a bit like it would need another license from their code.”

They could also port it to Android and release it there for free, or even sell it there (while offering all buyers the source code, to comply with the GPL)

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Re:Recovering Nintendo’s Lost SimCity for the NES by giancarlostoro on Thursday December 27, 2018 @08:15AM (#18769236)
This is true although might be somewhat tedious. I forget that translating code is also covered by the license.
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