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Source Code of Several Atari 7800 Games Released
jadoon88 writes to share a series of old Atari 7800 games that have been unofficially open sourced. "Remember Dig Dug or Centipede or Robotron? They used to be favorites when Atari's 7800 series was still around. Since the era of those consoles is over, and a different world of interactive reality gaming has taken over, Atari has unofficially released source code of over 15 games for the coders and enthusiasts to admire the state-of-the-art (because this is what it was back then). During those times, nobody would have imagined in their wildest dreams the games that Atari's developers floated into the gaming thirsty market and instantly swept across continental boundaries. But things changed soon after that and a company once regarded as one of the most successful gaming console manufacturers and developers faded away in the pages of our technology's hall-of-fame."
"free as in speech". I guarantee you that he will not infer copyleft.
Your freedom to swing your fist around stops at my nose. Your freedom to distribute software stops when you deprive others of freedom.
That seems easy enough to understand.
Also, you seem to misunderstand what the FSF says. Understand that "free software" and "copyleft('ed) software" are two different things. Copyleft is a licensing scheme that makes software licensed under a copyleft license Free Software (as the FSF defines it) for all users.
This is not true for permissive (bsd-style) licenses: you can relicense them and make them proprietary. What is free for you is not free for your users.
If you can't do anything you want with it, then it's not free as in freedom.
Again, your freedom to swing your fist stops at my nose.
I will concede that only saying "free as in free speech" makes people think certain things that are wrong. But those wrong conclusions are in the subtleties. The wrong conclusions people come to when they intuit meaning from "open source" are much bigger.