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You are not allowed to publish any information about console APIs. That is part of the agreement for getting access to the SDK.

You can't publish any code that calls non-standard APIs. So therefore any code that interacts with those APIs cannot be open source.

You would have to publish a seperate extension to the engine that is not open source and make it only available to those who have signed the Developer Licence Agreement for the platform. Depending on what licence you chose or how the code is structured that might break your own open source licence.




> You are not allowed to publish any information about console APIs. That is part of the agreement for getting access to the SDK.

Sounds very much like paranoid '80s - '90s approach where everything including development tools was viewed as some kind of super guarded secret. But I guess incumbent consoles are stuck in that mindset. They should realize it's been a different century for two decades already. Hiding an API is not helping anyone.




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