Thanks to the investigation by drummyfish, we now know that only the
engine is GPL-2.0-or-later. However, I'm filing this only as important
because it has been this way since at least its first inclusion into
Debian and any *original* assets are probably intended to be under a
libre license. I do not know if the data includes third party assets.

https://libregamewiki.org/Talk:Alex_the_Allegator_4

I was reluctant to kick alex out during freeze as it seemed an
overreaction, but strictly speaking we have no idea what the copyright
status is. Escalating now so if anyone wants to keep it in trixie they
have 15 months to do so, I have no personal incentive to follow up.

Hi,

I understand

It's disappointing, but we'll need to move on.

This game is now in the same situation as opentyrian...

The assets can be made packageable with data-game-data-packager
and alex4 engine will have to be moved to contrib.

Greets

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
alex4, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1035043@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Alexandre Detiste <tchet@debian.org> (supplier of updated alex4 package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2023 18:36:21 +0100
Source: alex4
Binary: alex4 alex4-dbgsym
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 1.1-10
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Games Team <pkg-games-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Alexandre Detiste <tchet@debian.org>
Description:
 alex4      - Alex the Allegator 4 - a retro platform game
Closes: 1035043
Changes:
 alex4 (1.1-10) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   [ Alexandre Detiste ]
   * drop non-free alex4-data, move package to contrib (Closes: #1035043)
   * Upgrade to debhelper-compat 13
 .
   [ Pino Toscano ]
   * Drop menu file, since alex4 already provides a .desktop file.
 .
   [ Debian Janitor ]
   * Trim trailing whitespace.
   * Use versioned copyright format URI.
   * Use secure URI in Homepage field.
   * Update standards version to 4.6.2, no changes needed.
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