sorry for the cross post, but i can''t seem to find a solid answer on this... anyone? i''m developing an app and need to know the total amount of texture memory any given piece of hardware has so i know to either dynamically lower the res of the textures i bind, or to disallow the loading of more graphics. i read on the DevIL page that glGetIntegerv is the way to get this info, but after looking over the param list I am unable to determine which to use... i can find the maximum texture size - 256*256 etc...but not what i''m looking for. can anyone point me in the right direction? thanks in advance.... btw-> i''d be using devil, but i want to try to market this app and i''m not sure how that would work with the gnu lesser license... jason

As I understand it it''s legal to use any lib that is released under ''lesser GPL'' in a commercial produkt - but:

1) if you make any modifikations to the lib you must make those changes publicly avalible - either as scource or as object files
2) dont link staticly to the lib (ie. make it part of the exe) - then you have to make it possible for ppl to recompile your program ?

But if you just link to the dll''s (as is most often the case with DevIL) you should be home free:

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from the lesser GPL
6 b) Use a suitable shared library mechanism for linking with the Library. A suitable mechanism is one that (1) uses at run time a copy of the library already present on the user''s computer system, rather than copying library functions into the executable, and (2) will operate properly with a modified version of the library, if the user installs one, as long as the modified version is interface-compatible with the version that the work was made with.

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Your product (game / product) can be realesed under any terms you want (ie: commercial), but be aware of this line:

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[...]provided that the terms permit modification of the work for the customer''s own use and reverse engineering for debugging such modifications.

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Im no legal expert, but it seems to me that the above line makes it legal to use cracks and no-cd patches on your program.... but ofcourse if somebody does that and does not own a copy of your game / program it''s still theft

NOTE: the above is my interpretation of the lesser GPL and is not legaly binding for me, the FSF, GNU or any one else for that matter I strongly encurage any one who would use a lib under the GPL to actualy read it (or have a lawer do so)!



Hope this helps

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thanks for the info. i''m gonna have a friend look at the lesser gpl. hmm...maybe i will use DevIL.