Re: Should we stop linking to FAudio for our XAudio implementation?

[Zebediah Figura]

On 3/29/23 12:00, Esme Povirk wrote:
> > Unfortunately FAudio cannot, counterintuitively, link to LGPL code,
> > because it needs to be able to run on embedded platforms, which (for
> > reasons I do not understand) cannot ship any LGPL code.
>
> It's quite simple. If a platform (such as Nintendo Switch) does not allow
> users to sideload their own code on it, it's not possible to comply with
> the terms of the LGPL while shipping LGPL code on that platform, because
> the user cannot install their own modified version of the LGPL library.

Isn't that what tivoization is, or do I misunderstand? And if so, I 
would assume that only restricts (L)GPL v3, whereas LGPL v2 would still 
be fine.