[ODE] TriMesh support and OPCODE added to ODE core

[Adam D. Moss]

Erwin de Vries wrote:
>>That sounds exciting.  But, are there any license issues in
>>doing this?  (Erwin?)
> 
> The code added to ODE is under the ODE licencing agreement.

That's good... but...

 > Opcode has no licence afaik.

(IANAL) I don't want to get heavy, since the last things that
hackers generally want to be bothered with is licensing and non-
code stuff, but that's not the same thing as falling into the public
domain.  In the absense of a license statement to the contrary,
one does not /have/ license to use that (copyrighted) code.

Fortunately we have Pierre Terdiman, to whom the OpCode copyright
seems to belong, right here on this mailing list.  :)   If he wants
to explicitly make it clear that OpCode is good under ODE's
license, that would be A-1 Super...

 > And some code was taken from Magic, whose licence can be
> obtained here http://www.magic-software.com/License/free.pdf

Buuuuuut, this isn't actually compatible with the provisions
of ODE's license (it stipulates an additional restriction --
one that isn't likely to bother ODE's users, but only the
author has the right to allow you to effectively remove that
restriction by re-licensing the code with ODE's nice'n'liberal
BSD-style license).

Regards,
--Adam
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