[SDL] Am I reading the License right ?

[Sami Näätänen]

On Thursday 20 May 2004 16:55, kikabo wrote:
> I've seen comments here about closed source projects yet the license
> here http://www.libsdl.org/license.php seems to say that one way or
> another you have to provide your source, I'm a bit confused ...

What the license requires you to do depends how you use it.
So here are the possible scenarios:

unmodified dynamically linked SDL
no need to provide anything although it is recommended that you save the 
SDL sources you originally used, so that people can get those from you.

modified dynamically linked SDL
the recommendation above changes to necessity.

statically linked SDL
just as the cases above, but in addition you have to provide the object 
code of your program so that anybody can relink their own version of 
the SDL to your code. You of course can provide the sources instead of 
the object code.



If I remember correctly Loki used a hybrid of these cases:
Ie they provided only astatically linked program without the objectcode 
AND the same program as dynamically linked, so that people who wanted 
to  modify the used SDL could do that with the dynamically linked 
version. This way the others got a fully working program without the 
pain of makeing sure that the system has the correct version of SDL 
library.