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I doubt that this is really GPL licensed. Normally the source code should be provided with the binary, which is not the case. Apart from that, I could not find an official reference from Blender Studio to this itch page leaving me a bit suspicious whether this is actually an authentic release page.

edit: The license is now MIT and there is a link from the official blog post to this page.  Thank you for clearing that up and taking those issues seriously :)

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https://studio.blender.org/blog/dogwalk-official-release/

https://bsky.app/profile/studio.blender.org/post/3lttu5vax3s27

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There is no requirement whatsoever for GPL-licensed source code to be provided with the binary. It just has to be available to recipients of the binary.

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it is the other way around. there is no requirement to provide a binary, but if we do have the binary, the source code needs to be provided as well

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The license file in the source says it's CC BY-4.

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CC4 for the graphical assets
GPLv3 for the programming code

Also see https://itch.io/post/13347732

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But not in the same download as the binary. Even burning it on a DVD where you pay for shipping and the DVD would be a viable way of providing the source code.

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this only applies to distribution in a physical object (section 6c.1 of the gplv3) but what applies here is (at least how i see it) section 6d which reads as follows:

> Convey the object code by offering access from a designated place (gratis or for a charge), and offer equivalent access to the Corresponding Source in the same way through the same place at no further charge.

(this is only an excerpt)

the "equivalent access" is what i think is not given, since we have gratis access to the binary, but not to the source code.

but they promised to clear that up soooo...
cute game btw

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Sorry for the confusion. We'll make sure to include the links to the itch store page more consistently in our posts to make it look more legit.

The license of our sources is a bit muddled. We'll try to clear that up asap. The full production repository is CC-BY since it mostly includes the original art assets. The source code (scripts) are licensed as MIT.
All of these assets are available to download through our website but we didn't make the original git repository public (same for any of our other projects).

Despite not being in violation of the MIT license, charging extra for obtaining the source code makes it neither free software nor open source, according to how the FSF and OSI define these terms. Reported as miscategorized.