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Re: [pygame] News: SDL 1.3 is now under the zlib licence.

Hello,

I doubt pygame will be changing any time soon.  It would be close to impossible to find all the contributors and get their agreement on changing license.  Also SDL 1.2 is LGPL, which means pygame has to be LGPL for SDL 1.2.

cya.


On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 11:37 PM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Wow. Is pygame going to change too?
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anatoly t.



On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:00 PM, René Dudfield <renesd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> SDL 1.3 is now under the zlib licence, instead of LGPL.
>
> http://zlib.net/zlib_license.html
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlib_License
>
> For those that don't know, zlib is like a bsd license but even more
> permissive.
>
> SDL 1.2 remains under LGPL.
>
>
> cya.
>