Is FMOD really BSD compatible?

[Notch]

The FMOD site says that it's not free for commercial projects. I would never had found that out unless I went looking at their site.

I thought that since LWJGL is BSD, I could use FMOD without any problems.

[Matzon]

nope - you can use lwjgl without any problems...
likewise lwjgl isn't BSD compatable with OpenAL or DevIL - people still use it...

Only thing lwjgl has in common with oal & devil, is that it's free (as in $$) to use, whereas fmod costs money (if your product does too). FMOD is free to use in freeware programs.

[Notch]

But I can't make a game that uses the FMOD parts of LWJGL and charge for it, right?

[princec]

Of course, you just have to pay for an FMOD license if you want to ship the FMOD dll.

Cas

[Notch]

Right, that's what I thought. Thanks. =)


You should probably stick a big warning about that somewhere.