[ODE] Expieranced ODE User

[Francis Irving]

On Fri, 07 Jun 2002 09:20:28 -0400, "Martin C. Martin"
<martin@metahuman.org> wrote:

>You realize ODE is distributed under the LGPL right?  And that means you
>need to provide the source to the lib, and a way for anyone who hacks it
>to link their changes into the game?  So people will be able to reduce
>gravity, change friction, or even completely replace the physics engine
>if they want?  If so, that'll be a lot of fun.  :)
>
>Does the company providing the funding know that?  Does the deal you're
>about to sign allow that?

In practice it isn't a problem.  If they link ODE into a separate
"ode.dll", and provide their source code changes somewhere, then
that's fine.  Publishers, and most customers, won't even know or
understand this subtle distinction, and their contracts almost
certainly won't mention it.

It's really no different from dynamically linking to DirectX, or even
user32.dll.  As professional programmers, we set the agenda as to what
level of open source code reuse is acceptable in a commercial
application (before the whole thing is effectively open source).
There's no need to fear that power.

Francis