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If you're smart enough to use Github, you're smart enough to understand that "source code I can easily copy" does not mean "source code I am allowed to use if it is cool enough".



Agreed, but it seems unlikely that Google will actually care. Namco might, though.


We care, it's not open source, so it shouldn't be treated as such.


http://github.com/macek/google_pacman/blob/master/README

Here you go. Looks like it's okay to play offline yourself or online using their hosted version.


Probably I'm not smart enough, but I cannot find the license this was released under. So what I am NOT supposed to do with the code?


If there is no license attached, then standard US copyright applies to it. In short: all rights are reserved to the original author (Google Inc.) and you're not allowed to reproduce the text anywhere.

Of course, then you get into Fair Use and private use, and a million other legal conundrums. But, yeah, not open source.


I bet it's only an email away to be opensourced...




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