[ODE] -question on BSD license

[gl]

Hi,

yes, all these licenses can get confusing (especially those that like to
ramble on for page after page!).

Basically you can choose which license you wish to use.  The BSD style
license allows you to use ODE royalty free in commercial products, without
having to release your source code.  This is the important part:

"Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
and/or other materials provided with the distribution."

In other words, as you guessed, you must:

1) print the ODE copyright notice somewhere (eg. in an About box, or a list
of credits), something like 'includes code from the Open Dynamics Engines,
Copyright (c) 2001,2002, Russell L. Smith. All rights reserved."

2) you must include the license text itself somewhere (you can just include
the License-BSD.txt file in your package), and

3) be sure to print the Disclaimer part in your documentation somewhere.

At least that's my interpretation.
--
gl

----- Original Message -----
From: "Serge Kourdakov" <serge@sat-sim.org>
To: <ode@q12.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: [ODE] -question on BSD license


> Hi again
>
> I was asking
>
> >Could you confirm that there will not be license probs to us  ( as ODE as
> well is licensed under LGPL and possibly there might be some  issues) if
we
>
> >1) retain original BSD license text with our  game distribution  (but one
> license - BSD  and   we will not include  LGPL license) and we cleary give
> >credits to original authors.
> >2) have linked binary of ODE which we might tweak in interfaces to meat
our
> specific needs or tweak for specific compiler..
>
> this doesn't mean that I will not try to contribute to ODE ( if only I
> manage to develop something really valuable to add )
> but it is just matter of fact- if it is really OK to have binary distro
only
> just with inclusion of  BSD license and initial author copyright notice.
>
> You know... after reading too many  disccussions on OpenSource just
insticts
> ask to re check the issue.
>
> and as new  project will cost us money I just wish to know before hand
that
> things would be OK after we end it.
> sorry that I ask this question second time - but I checked archives - no
one
> discussed the issues in all details.
> and possibly it will be OK to have such in archives :)
>
> Regards
> Serge
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Serge Kourdakov
> To: ode@q12.org
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 1:08 PM
> Subject: [ode] -question on BSD license
>
>
> >Hi All
>
> >I'm new to this list.
>
> <skip>
>
> >also - if the above two points are not sufficient for the use - then what
> else I should do to use ODE in commercial project in binary form and be
sure
> things >are OK?
>
> >Regards
> >Serge
>
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