Licences for Love's Dependencies in a Distributed Work?

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Licences for Love's Dependencies in a Distributed Work?

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Hi,

If I were to create something using LOVE and distribute it packaged up with the LOVE binary, what sort of licensing information would I need to include with it? As I understand it, I should probably mention the fact that LOVE itself is distributed under a zlib licence. Should I also include a mention the licences of SDL, libmpg123, OpenAL and DevIL? What sort of attribution do these components require?
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Re: Licences for Love's Dependencies in a Distributed Work?

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Yes. For SDL, libmpg123, OpenAL and DevIL you have to mention that they're under the LGPL and distribute a copy of the LGPL. I think you also need to distribute the source if someone (you distributed the binary to) is really asking for it. ;)

The FreeType license requires you to mention that the project "is based in part of the work of the FreeType Team".

The rest is under zlib/MIT/BSD licenses or variants thereof.
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Re: Licences for Love's Dependencies in a Distributed Work?

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You could probably use this to start off with, gurok: https://bitbucket.org/rude/love/src/541 ... icense.txt. It's the license file included in LOVE's source.
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Re: Licences for Love's Dependencies in a Distributed Work?

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Yeah, I found that license.txt file in the .zip download (but strangely not installed by the installer). Thanks to both of you. This covers everything I'd considered, plus a few I hadn't. Strange that the license.txt file makes no mention of FreeType.
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