Multiple console ports have been made with ScummVM, AFAIK. The Humongous game ports come to mind.Anyhow. To this day ScummVM team members claim that they offered NightDive a way to relicense, for a fee they thought reasonable.
A couple days ago I saw an archived Reddit post from what looked like ScummVM devs talking about the situation. I'd love to know more myself. And yes, it would open tremendous possibilities.