Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/01/30/08:11:51
On Wed, 29 Jan 1997, George Foot wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jan 1997 13:28:20 GMT, mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
> wrote:
>
> >I would like to know what the licensing is for Allegro. I have not
> >downloaded it, but am considering doing so after someone explains the
> >licensing to me. Can I use the Allegro libs to produce COMMERCIAL
> >software? Ie: Could I write a commercial game using allegro, without
> >paying any royalties to anyone? (I'm willing to put plugs for it in
> >though.)
>
> Quoting from the README.TXT:
>
> ===================================
> ============ Copyright ============
> ===================================
>
> Allegro is swap-ware. You may use, modify, redistribute, and generally
> hack it about in any way you like, but if you do you must send me
> something in exchange. This could be a complimentary copy of a game,
> an addition or improvement to Allegro, a bug report, some money (this
> is particularly encouraged if you use Allegro in a commercial
> product), or just a copy of your autoexec.bat if you don't have
> anything better. If you redistribute parts of Allegro or make a game
> using it, it would be nice if you mentioned me somewhere in the
> credits, but if you just want to pinch a few routines that is OK too.
> I'll trust you not to rip me off.
Too cool. I'm DL'ing it ASAP! I don't really have anything that
great to "swap" with the author, but he said "AUTOEXEC.BAT" was ok, so
I'll send him that. Hope he likes 14k batchfiles. :o)
Thanks for your reply.
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