Re: Possible To Use SDL2 & Android Studio 2 On Linux?

On 23.01.2017 19:22, Eric Wing wrote:
> On 1/23/17, Daniel Gibson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> One thing I wondered about is: You mention iOS support, but the license
>> is LGPL - isn't LGPL incompatible with iOS?
>> At least I think that this is a reason openal-soft isn't available on iOS.
>
> So Apple ships their own OpenAL version with Mac and iOS, so there are
> no license issues with that.
>
> ALmixer was originally written in 2002-ish, back when SDL was LGPL. It
> seemed like a good idea at the time. Oops.
>
> I've been going through a relicensing thing for awhile now. I haven't
> promoted it mostly because I'm not fully done, but basically I'm
> moving towards zlib like SDL is now.

Cool!

>
> So for iOS, as long as you use the Core Audio decoder (default for Mac
> & iOS), you are good (since I wrote that and rewrote the shim
> interfaces for it...don't use SDL_sound).
>
> The .wav and .ogg codec I pulled from SDL_sound which is LGPL which is
> why the migration isn't complete.

I gotta admit I'm surprised SDL_sound is (still) licensed under LGPL, 
but maybe relicensing is hard due to external contributions?

>
> I have native Android OpenSL ES, Windows Media Foundation, and Apple
> Core Audio decoders, so I can mostly avoid these codecs except on
> Linux, which is already a bag of LGPL and dynamic linking, so it's not
> a big problem there.
>
> Anyway, if you want to use ALmixer on iOS with the Core Audio codec, I
> won't go after you. :)

Good to know :)

>
> (If somebody wants to help me and get a zlib-like implementation for
> these 2 codecs, I would appreciate it. This could either be a rewrite,
> or Ryan Gordon determining that those codec parts were written by him
> and relicensing it under zlib. I've been meaning to follow up with him
> about this, but it keeps falling to the bottom of my list.)

At least libogg and libvorbis and libvorbisfile are under BSD license; 
there is also stb_vorbis which is public domain.
The "glue" to ALmixer would have to be rewritten, but it doesn't seem to 
be that much code..
For decoding wav https://github.com/nothings/single_file_libs#audio 
lists some single file headers under liberal licenses (no idea how good 
those are).

Cheers,
Daniel