[IGDA_indies] SDL commercial viability

[Brian Hook]

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 23:49:14 -0400, Drew Sikora wrote:
> Yo Brian. My legalese isn't that great :P Could you explain exactly
> *how* it's trivial to work around the LPGL? 

By "work around" I mean "comply in a manner that doesn't impact you".

If you dynamically link to an LGPL library, you're good to go.  So 
dynamically link, and stuff the DLL in your app directory and you're 
done.  On OS X it's even easier, you just toss it into the Frameworks 
directory of your app bundle and the user can't even find that DLL 
without serious effort (since executable folders basically hide all 
that from them).

So it's not that tough to deal with.  LGPL is primarily a problem when 
you're targeting embedded platforms such as consoles, but even then, 
you can often approach the authors for an exemption and they'll 
usually not mind or will ask for a token amount of money.

Brian