licensing/restricted question about games/oneko-sakura

[ng0 at n0.is]

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> Hi,
> 
> I have recently picked up oneko-sakura and did some maintenance
> work to make it build at least on NetBSD 8. So far I assumed it
> was public-domain, going by reading the entries in the source
> and the original URLs it points to, as well as Debian's license
> document.
> 
> svn commit 33748 of the Makefile states tt PATCHFILES,
> which is defined as
> PATCHFILES= oneko-1.2.sakura.3.diff.gz
> 
> contains deriviative work. This was 18 years 7 months ago,
> about the same time development stopped (1999 iirc).
> 
> Debian considers the same source (3 patch revisions later, 1.2.sakura.5)
> as: https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/o/oneko/oneko_1.2.sakura.6-11_copyright
> 
> 
> As the pkgsrc-wip maintainer I went by the element of least surprise
> and copied the restrict and NO_CDROM for pkgsrc.
> 
> My questions: why did you come to this conclusion, and
> did someone who contributed to this check later revisions of
> oneko-sakura (I think I based my work on sakura6, the last
> public release)?
> 
> I ask this as both a package maintainer as well as the maintainer of the
> new oneko source as both public domain as well as bsd-2 don't go well
> together with "no cdrom".
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> ng0