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Re: [pygame] Licensing



On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 7:58 AM, James Paige <Bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I notice LGPL is used on a lot of pygame projects.  Is that because
> pygame itself uses LGPL?  It makes sense for pygame to use LGPL because
> it's a huge, widely used library but it's not apparent as to why the
> game projects themselves to use LGPL.

Yes, the fact that pygame, and python are both LGPL is a main reason why
many pygame games are LGPL.

Python is not LGPL - read http://www.python.org/psf/license/
In general - it is BSD-like in the way that you may use source or binaries in any way you want and don't have to disclose your modifications, but you should preserve the copyrights.

--anatoly t.
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