[ODE] what is the relationship between Croteam and ODE?

[Russ Smith]

well, with respect to licensing we will not allow code into ODE that has
any license more restrictive than the BSD license. code donated by anyone
(individual or company) must be explicitly released under such a license.
as an aside, the text of the GPL offers this advice:

    You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or
    your school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the
    program, if necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names:
        Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright
        interest in the program `Gnomovision'
        (which makes passes at compilers) written
        by James Hacker.
        signature of Ty Coon, 1 April 1989, Ty Coon, President of Vice

on the issue of overhead of adding more collision primitives, there is
none: collision functions are called by looking up function pointers in
an N*N table.  more collision primitives just makes the library bigger.

russ.

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Russ Smith
http://www.q12.org/

On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Mike Reinstein wrote:

>
> Are the people from Croteam donating their collider algorithms for free,
> or does signify a forthcoming change in how ODE can be used?
>
> just wondering if this changes usability in terms of licensing,etc.
>
> PS regarding the inclusion of "every primitive type vs every primitive
> type colliding", is there a significant performance penalty for including
> additional types in the core? If not it seems rational to me that every
> primitive need to be collidable with every type of primitive, otherwise
> youd have to maintain some weird ruleset for mixing only certain types of
> primitives, and it would really mangle the API.  If there is a
> significant overhead, ca it be mitigated in some way such that including
> a few more primitives in the core wont decrease efficiency?
>
>
>
> random thoughts and queries...
>
> regards,
>
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