Re: [cc65] how about commercial prgs?

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From: Andre Majorel (amajorel_at_teaser.fr)
Date: 2002-03-28 18:11:33 

On 2002-03-28 10:01 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:

> > 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
> 
> The simple answer is "No".
> 
> I went and read their full details, and one is absolutely prohibited
> from actually linking their product into a program.

Your reading of their license is probably incorrect.

If library X is LGPL'd, it is legal to dynamically link
proprietary code with it.

If that wasn't the case, there wouldn't be any commercial
applications on Linux, since glibc is LPGL'd.

What is illegal is
- *statically* linking non GPL/LGPL code with LGPL code,
- linking in any fashion non GPL/LGPL code with GPL code.

-- 
André Majorel <amajorel_at_teaser.fr>
http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/
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