From: Bryan Pope (bpope_at_wordstock.com)
Date: 2002-03-28 16:35:47
And thusly Stephan Lesch spake: > > Hi, > > for a more practical question, we're planning to sell copies of our > adventure game which I'd like to compile using cc65. What's the status of > the compiled program if it uses a runtime library which comes with the > compiler? > > I must admit that I'm a bit confused by the copyright section on the > webpage... If the original software is GPLed, and Ullrich places > his changes and "other executable sources" under the GPL, too, but on the > other hand puts the tools he's rewritten under a less restrictive license, > what does this mean for a compiled program? > SDL, which is a graphics library for many different OSs is licensed under the Lesser GPL. This is taken from their website: ---------------------------------------------- Q: Can I use SDL in a commercial application? A: The simple answer is "Yes", just dynamically link with SDL and you're fine. Full details are available at: http://www.libsdl.org/license.html --------------------------------------------------------------- Here is a further excerpt from the licensing section: ---------------------------------------- The Simple DirectMedia Layer library is currently available under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 2 or newer. This license allows you to link with the library in such a way that users can modify the library and have your application use the new version. --------------------------------------------------------------- Cheers, Bryan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo_at_musoftware.de with the string "unsubscribe cc65" in the body(!) of the mail.
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