Re: luaODE

[Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 02:07:07AM -0800, Wesley Smith wrote:
> Well, thanks for the replies to my question.  I didn't realize that
> having the license require that people share their modifications was
> such an issue.  I presonally would hope that people would share such
> things anyway and that making this a requirement of use would not be a
> limitation, but then again I have never really been in an environment
> where it mattered.  I'm going to update luaODE to use weaktables for
> userdata caching over the weekend so when I update the download I'll
> change it to BSD.

Wes, what license to use is obviously a charged issue! There is no
reason not to use LGPL, if its what you want. Its your code, why should
you develop code for free to be used by for-profit companies?

But... I suggest that if you change the license to something BSDish, you
use exactly the same license as lua 5.0, which is usually called the
"MIT" license, see

  http://www.lua.org/license.html#5  

It makes it easier for people to decide if they can use your library,
since if they are using lua, they must be able to accept lua's license.

Cheers,
Sam