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Re: [pygame] Licensing Issues...
Further research reveals that it is not licensed under the GPL, but the
"GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE" which is readable here:
http://www.esr.earlham.edu/dqc/license/LICENSE-eXist
I can see it is relatively more lax, I would imagine if the library was
truly GPL, then PyGame would have to be too... But still - feedback is
welcome...
Regards,
Gazoo
Lasse Laursen wrote:
Hey PyGame Developers,
I'm currently in the process of developing a commercial product using
PyGame as well as Py2Exe... Now - basically I'm wondering if other
people has had a hand in releasing any commercial python software
using PyGame... I am aware of the MS pitfall regarding the msvcr71.dll
file and that so far, the apparently only legal recourse is to
purchase visual studio .net 2003... But I've been wondering a bit
about Python and its dependancies...
I know that PyGame is LGPL and friendly towards commercial products...
Searching the net I also found the following:
http://archives.seul.org/pygame/users/Oct-2004/msg00099.html
Now this is all well and good, but when looking closer - at least one
library that PyGame uses seem to be licensed under the regular GPL -
for example the smpeg lib from this location: http://icculus.org/smpeg/
I know that lawyers don't exactly troll programming mailing lists, but
even some general knowledge would do me good here... I would assume
that since the entire PyGame package has one license, that's the one
to keep an eye on... Which would be the easiest for me without a
doubt... All feedback welcome...
Regards,
Gazoo