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I don't remember if any damages were awarded, but I do remember that the infringing software were all removed from the market when SCUMMVM sued Atari for releas
by speeder 6y ago
I don't remember if any damages were awarded, but I do remember that the infringing software were all removed from the market when SCUMMVM sued Atari for releasing Nintendo Wii games using their game engine without sharing anything at all.
Atari of course got stuck in a bad situation then, if they complied with GPL they would breach Nintendo NDA, so their choice was just stop selling the products in question entirely, so I must assume the lost sales were smaller than the potential damage if they were found guilty of copyright infringement.
- lmm 6y agoThey settled before trial; one of the settlement terms was Atari donating a certain amount of money to a specified to an open-source foundation.