[IGDA_indies] SDL commercial viability

[Jeremy Noetzelman]

There are non linking related concerns as well.

In particular, section 6 says you can't use anything LGPL'd with anything 
that forbids reverse engineering or other modification 'for the customers 
own use'

There is also some dispute whether or not the LGPL requires you to 
distribute object files with your release, as it requires that an end user 
must be able to re-link with his own version of the LGPL'd code.

YMMV

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Drew Sikora wrote:

> 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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