Will you support the new Atari Console

[Schizophretard]

I thought Stella was open source and absolutely free for any manufacturer to modify and use. Is that not correct?

 

That is correct. It is like how you can buy 2600.emu that is based on Stella from Google Play and they didn't have to ask Stephen Anthony for a license to do so because GNU GPLv2 is the license already granted to everyone.

[TheHoboInYourRoom]

I thought Stella was open source and absolutely free for any manufacturer to modify and use. Is that not correct?

Stella is free software, yes, but it's distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL version 2, a so-called "copyleft" license. If you modify copylefted software and then distribute your modified version, you're legally required to provide the source for your modifications, which some people and companies don't like for a variety of reasons.

(I'm not making a moral judgement of the GPL here. I quite like it, actually.)

Edited February 20, 2017 by TheHoboInYourRoom