From: Mike McCarty (jmccarty_at_ssd.usa.alcatel.com)
Date: 2002-03-28 18:19:30
On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Andre Majorel wrote:
> 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.
I doubt it, as the rest of your message shows.
> If library X is LGPL'd, it is legal to dynamically link
> proprietary code with it.
If you read what I wrote, I did not use the phrase "dynamically link",
I used the phrase "actually link".
> 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.
Yep, exactly what I said.
Mike
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