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[Enlight]

DevIL or FreeImage, pros and cons...

which one is the most 'unrestricted' for using in commercial projects...?

[Enlight]

Ok, I have chosen FreeImage. But I'm concerned about, how "free" is FreeImage.
Does anyone understand the FreeImage Public License?

http://freeimage.sou...age-license.txt

Can I link statically in a commercial product? What are the limitations...
Thanks

[kulik]

As far as I know ogre transfered to freeimage to allow static linking, so my deduction is that static linking indeed is allowed. I am not sure about further limitations.

[Nils Pipenbrinck]

Enlight said:

Can I link statically in a commercial product? What are the limitations...
Thanks

Good question. Keep in mind, that the freeimage license is just one license you have to check. Freeimage by itself does not do the actual image loading but links a bunch of other libraries for the hard part.

[Enlight]

Ok, I could link dynamically with freeimage, but even in this case, I'm still concerned about the FreeImage Public License.

I'm not a lawyer and the license text is long...., that makes me think: if we programmers need to understand licenses, does lawyers have to understand c++? heheh