SDL 2.0 Has Been Officially Released

[shmerl]

OpenGL 3.0+ would include 4.x unless they seriously only targetted 3.0, 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3

That's good. It's a bit confusing as is (that + means 4.x as well).

[stqn]

Is there any license that has copyleft but allows static linking? I see zlib (along any liberal licenses) as a poor choice for SDL, since it allows to keep changes closed.

LGPL, if your program is open-source, allows static linking. It even allows it for closed-source programs if you provide the object files to allow users to relink it with a different version of the LGPL lib.

And as I wrote in the previous news, SDL 1.2 is not under the GPL, but under the LGPL.

[ean5533]

A friend of mine told me LGPL only allows dynamic linking. He's a programmer, and he switched to MIT after he found that out.

Your friend is correct, I was wrong. If you statically link then you have to "also provide your application in an object (not necessarily source) format, so that a user has the opportunity to modify the library and relink the application."

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LGPLStaticVsDynamic

[Ericg]

No OpenGL 4.x support? It sounds bad. Is it in the short term plans?

OpenGL 3.0+ would include 4.x unless they seriously only targetted 3.0, 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3

[shmerl]

OpenGL 3.0+ support,

No OpenGL 4.x support? It sounds bad. Is it in the short term plans?

[xeekei]

LGPL? This is one of the options Qt is licensed under.

A friend of mine told me LGPL only allows dynamic linking. He's a programmer, and he switched to MIT after he found that out.

[ean5533]

Is there any license that has copyleft but allows static linking? I see zlib (along any liberal licenses) as a poor choice for SDL, since it allows to keep changes closed.

LGPL? This is one of the options Qt is licensed under.

[mrugiero]

Is there any license that has copyleft but allows static linking? I see zlib (along any liberal licenses) as a poor choice for SDL, since it allows to keep changes closed.

[kwagga]

Well DONE SDL team

[phoronix]

Phoronix: SDL 2.0 Has Been Officially Released

As was expected, SDL 2.0 has been officially released! This is a very important milestone for multi-platform game developers, among others...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTQzNTA