[SDL] Dynamically loading SDL dlls

[Andre Krause]

Jeremy wrote:
> I mentioned that earlier. I'm not going to play the object file game 
> either. It's easier to find a library that fits my needs better than 
> maintain a couple hundred meg zip of object files(and libraries?) from a 
> large project in the zero chance someone will want to re-link SDL. It's 
> wasted effort. SDL is great, just not for my needs in this particular 
> case. On the other hand I'm growing to really like what SFML has to 
> offer as part of this experimentation with alternatives.
> 
its a shame that the license of SDL does not allow your scenario.

i am not into license stuff, but are there any good reasons, not to 
change/enhance the license in the following way:

"you might use sdl in commercial projects and you are allowed to link 
statically, but if you do so, you agree in providing product lifetime patches / 
new executables on user request and in case of major version jumps of libSDL".

something like this - that it is fixed in the license to support updates to the 
project.

if i would do a commercial application where i want to have closed source, i 
would do regular bug fixes and publish regular patches anyway - isnt that the 
core meaning of "commercial support" anyway...