Thursday, March 05, 2020

Re: new games/nxengine-evo

Cave Story is an excellent game, and nxengine is a nice port. Thanks for
submitting it.

Nam Nguyen writes:
> Because the license is so vaguely defined, it will be safer to only
> package nxengine-evo and to not distribute Cave Story. nxengine-evo
> upstream clarified that assets in ${WRKSRC}/data are released under
> GPLv3. (https://github.com/nxengine/nxengine-evo/issues/169)

Upstream is wrong. These data files are straight from Cave Story, which
is released under a freeware license that does not grant explicit
permission to modify or redistribute. If we import this port, we can't
provide anything on the mirrors: it must use restrictive PERMIT_*.

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