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Re: [pygame] License question regarding Windows platform



Hi,

IANAL and I'm not very experienced with licensing so for what it's
worth here is my understanding of the issue.

Olof Bjarnason wrote:
Is this OK:

1) make a downloadable .zip/.exe with no source code, neither pygame
nor game source
2) include a "license.txt" explaining:
  a - the PyGame license and where to download source code
  b - where to download my game's source code (MIT-licensed, hosted at
Launchpad)

Yes. I think that would be OK.
First of all the code you wrote is yours and you can do with it whatever
you like (e.g. distribute it as source or binary)
PyGame is LGPL and as far as my understanding goes you can also distribute
it in binary with your game as long as you mention its use and point to a
place where one can obtain the code which is what you are doing with the
"license.txt". I think you are only required to share any *changes* you
made to the pygame source but if you only use it as a library you don't
need to release your own code (I think that is the main difference between
GPL and LGPL)

again: take this with a grain of salt.

yours
//Lorenz