The First Videogame GPL violation case

Some more info: http://www.scummvm.org/news/20090616/

What? What happened? Who the hell is Atari? They seem like a local variable that is never used. Plus, this sentence.

  It would seem that a European developer working with the 
  shambling mess of a company now known (but with absolutely no 
  relationship to the original) as Atari.