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Re:Prince of Persia open-source port based on the DOS versio... by rob74 on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @02:10PM (#29321896)
Again, IANAL, but that's not really relevant. The old Super Mario games for Game Boy and SNES can be downloaded from various abandonware sites, while the Mario franchise is still ongoing. As long as Nintendo is Ok with that, that's not a problem. The original Prince of Persia is also available as "abandonware" and can even be played in the browser (https://www.retrogames.cz/play_102-DOS.php?language=EN)
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Re:Prince of Persia open-source port based on the DOS versio... by gspr on Thursday November 25, 2021 @09:54AM (#29341833)
Even if Nintendo is OK with that (are they really?), that does not mean that someone else can grab one of those copies and claim copyright on it! That's what the author of the reverse-engineered Prince of Persia seems to be doing.
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