# HG changeset patch # User Ryan C. Gordon # Date 1010126139 0 # Node ID f369e345ae1e2ee69aa95d038f17eec557fc2e1b # Parent 9d436dbb1666ff15d97eca3f7c37408cd9928e34 Added some notes to the top of the license. diff -r 9d436dbb1666 -r f369e345ae1e COPYING --- a/COPYING Fri Jan 04 06:26:32 2002 +0000 +++ b/COPYING Fri Jan 04 06:35:39 2002 +0000 @@ -1,3 +1,23 @@ +Please note that the included source from Timidity, the MIDI decoder, is also + licensed under the following terms (GNU LGPL), but can also be used + separately under the GNU GPL, or the Perl Artistic License. Those licensing + terms are not reprinted here, but can be found on the web easily. + +Other external libraries (such as Ogg Vorbis, SMPEG, etc) have their own + licenses which you should be aware of before including the related code + in your configuration. Most (if not all) are also under the LGPL, but are + external projects and we've got no control over them. + +If you want to use SDL_sound under a closed-source license, please contact + Ryan (icculus@clutteredmind.org), and we can discuss an alternate license for + money to be distributed between the contributors to this work, but I'd + encourage you to abide by the LGPL, since the usual concern is whether you + can use this library without releasing your own source code (you can). + + +------------------- + + GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2.1, February 1999