SDL3 Preview Release Aims To Help Test The New SDL 3.0 API

[uyjulian]

My dream is for Japanese / Korean developers to know this awesome FOSS project, because I know how awful joystick configuration can be in some of their games ported to PC.

I highly doubt Japanese developers will use it because they got scared of GPL (e.g. Aquaplus/Leaf/Xvid GPL incident https://leaf.aquaplus.jp/product/xvid.html ). Even through SDL2 and newer are licensed under more permissive Zlib licenses, it seems like there is still some information/memories going around.

https://twitter.com/jin1016/status/1361281183988948996

[furtadopires]

I highly doubt Japanese developers will use it because they got scared of GPL (e.g. Aquaplus/Xvid incident https://leaf.aquaplus.jp/product/xvid.html ). Even through SDL2 and newer are licensed under more permissive licenses, it seems like there is still some information/memories going around.

Could you tell me more about? Never heard about this incident.

But that apart, AFAIK all the components of SDL are under Zlib which is a permissive license of "You can use everything but give me some credits will ya".
I believe the actual problem is that mentality of "just use the default tools available" like western companies do with using Microsoft's Media Foundation (despite the better alternatives available). It's probably a matter of their using once for a successful case, and then realizing it's better to use always.

[uyjulian]

Could you tell me more about? Never heard about this incident.

But that apart, AFAIK all the components of SDL are under Zlib which is a permissive license of "You can use everything but give me some credits will ya".
I believe the actual problem is that mentality of "just use the default tools available" like western companies do with using Microsoft's Media Foundation (despite the better alternatives available). It's probably a matter of their using once for a successful case, and then realizing it's better to use always.

It seems like a large amount of the old message board messages disappeared/not indexable, but here are some references anyways https://www.google.com/search?q=%22l...id%22&ie=UTF-8