Re: luaODE

["Ivan-Assen Ivanov" <ivanassen@...>]

>     Well, it's within your rights to require people to contribute
> their modifications to you, after all it's your software. You have to
> choose what you prize most: lots of people using your software or it
> getting better all the time. And keep in mind that the LGPL allows the
> use of the software in closed-source programs.

This is a discussion that arises periodically in game development
forums and mailing lists (see, for example, the discussion starting from here:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.games.devel.sweng/4423 )
and the general consensus is that it's NOT OK to use LGPL code in
most games, for both technical reasons (you have to keep the code outside
of your game as a DLL, or you have to provide a "link kit" allowing the user
to re-link your game with another implementation of the LGPL library), and
for political reasons (big publisher's lawyers are likely to freak out when
they see it mentioned). It has little to do with the willingness of
game developers
to share their code.

Best regards,
Assen