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It's not so much an idealogical point to be made, but one to encourage contribution, which helps everyone. Steam and gamers get a better game because of contributions, and both gamers and developers get to see the benefits of FOSS directly. You may also see more free games because there's a good code base to build on, so Steam attracts more users because of free (as in beer) content, which means more potential contributions and better games. Having a centralized place where you play games, discuss them and can contribute to them with code or art could be very productive for everyone.
For license, we could just tag free games with "FOSS", "Open Source", "GPL", "BSD" or whichever is appropriate for the game. It would be best to just google for the source code repository.
I could be wrong, but it may be a violation of some licenses to not provide a link to the source code if you're distributing the binaries.
Maybe something like:
License: GPLv3 (code)
the text 'GPLv3' could be a link to the text of the GPLv3, and the word "code" could be a darker font, but link to the repo.
Overall, it's a pretty minor change.
Sorry, I thought the game art was CC.
Valve would presumably want to charge for these otherwise free (as in beer) games... Which could actually be a good source of funds for the development of these projects!
But doesn't Steam get their money from microtransactions from F2P?
Back to the main point though:
1. Valve likes 'added value' from the community like mods, etc.
2. FOSS promotes this.
3. If Valve makes some minor changes to accommodate FOSS (link to license and source code), they can add those games at will, and it could encourage the community to make games better.
4. Everyone wins. (Valve gets more content for free, FOSS games get more coverage and development, gamers get better games)
I think the main reason there is no more Free 2 Play games on Steam is most of them are DRM as there is no much point on a DRM on a free game any way..
Like some true Free2Play games on Steam are:
The Plan
Half-Life: Before (really its a mod... so not sure if i really need to have it on these list XD)
No More Room in Hell (i may be wrong abut these one)
Haunted Memories (first epsoid is free)
America's Army: Proving Grounds Beta