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jonathanopalise / ppengine

3D remake of Atari's Pole Position coin-op, using game logic reverse engineered from the arcade ROMs
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Open v-atamanenko opened 2 years ago

v-atamanenko commented 2 years ago

Good day. What is the license for this project? It doesn't seem to be provided anywhere in the repo.

jonathanopalise commented 2 years ago

The idea of a licence on a project of this nature is something of a thorny issue. Given that the game logic is reverse engineered from that of the arcade game, some of the code in the repo could be argued to be the property of whoever currently owns the rights to Pole Position, and the legalities of this would vary between jurisdictions. It would therefore be a questionable action for me to claim that the code is mine to apply a licence to.

Unfortunately I'm not in a position to offer any answer or solution to your question - just stating my interpretation of the situation as it stands!