[IGDA_indies] SDL commercial viability

[Drew Sikora]

Hmm... On second thought one of my team members isn't quite satisfied
without a more in-depth explanation as to *exactly* why it works to
dynamically link to the libraries. He's the legal/business guy of our little
group, so I can't blame him for wanting to know more :P

Drew Sikora
President, Lead Programmer
Blade Edge Software
www.blade-edge.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: indies-bounces at igda.org [mailto:indies-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of
Brian Hook
Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2004 11:52 PM
To: Indie SIG mailing list
Subject: RE: [IGDA_indies] SDL commercial viability

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


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