Simple DirectMedia Layer - License
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Apparently SDL-org changed the license of SDL from the LGPL (a copyleft license) to zlib (a permissive license).[1]

I don’t get why SDL-org would make the license change; unless if it’s for popularity.

  1. Older Releases (Check the license in versions before SDL2 and 1.3.) ↩︎

  • pingveno@lemmy.ml
    3·
    3 years ago

    It sounds like it was to allow static linking in commercial software. Previously, you had to ship a directory of dynamically linked libraries solely because of license restrictions.

    • Amicese@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      3 years ago

      Oh.

      Why couldn’t they just use DLLs? I don’t see why it would be needed to statically link SDL.