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This says Sev "turned into a completely different, much more complicated case" with the options being go to court or arrange a settlement.

The Atari lawyers responded, first denying the problem, then, after discovering that the Nintendo Wii SDK explicitly prohibits the use of open source software, threatening to take action against the ScummVM developers for the reverse engineered Humongous Games code they said appeared in one of ScummVM's game engines. The ScummVM developers contacted and sent a letter to Atari. According to Sev, the ScummVM 0.9.0 engine was used by the named games, as revealed by characteristic errors in the graphics rendering. Sev, on the other hand, is not, and says that the developers are not happy about the outcome. An official press release from the ScummVM developers "cyx" and "fingolfin" stated that a case over three games, "Freddie Fish: The Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds", "Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside" and "Spy Fox: Dry Cereal" which used the ScummVM engine to run classic point and click adventure games, had been settled in May, with Misitic Software paying all legal fees and making a donation to the Free Software Foundation.Īccording to a post from "Sev", another ScummVM developer, both Fingolfin and Cyx are prohibited from talking about the settlement. The ScummVM developers have agreed a settlement with Atari over GPL violations in three Nintendo Wii games developed by an Atari subcontractor.