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Pygame_sdl2 is a reimplementation of the Pygame API using SDL2 and related libraries. While in the past it was meant to support multiple applications, it only saw adoption as technology underlying Ren'Py, and is currently being supported for that purpose.
New code written for pygame_sdl2 is licensed under the Zlib license. Some code - including compiled code - is taken wholesale from Pygame, and is licensed under the LGPL2. Please check each module to determine its licensing status.
See the COPYING.ZLIB and COPYING.LGPL21 files for details - you'll need to comply with both to distribute software containing pygame_sdl2.
Pygame_sdl2 was written by:
- Patrick Dawson <pat@dw.is>
- Tom Rothamel <tom@rothamel.us>
It includes some code from Pygame, and is inspired by the hundreds of contributors to the Pygame, Python, and SDL2 projects.