I want to use ODE. It can be redistributed under the BSD license. In the BSD license, it says: "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." Will my program (a "derivative work" according the GPL) be a "Redistribution in binary form" according to the BSD license? Basically, I'm hoping that this BSD license will put no limitations on the licensing of my own code/binaries, as long as I do not distribute the ODE code or, say, ode.lib. Is that true? Thanks for any help~

I'm not a lawyer; but.. :D


BSD's about as liberal as they come. As long as you include the copyright information somewhere (manual, credits, readme.txt, whatever), and don't try to pass it off as your own work (edit the headers, and sell it on your site), it's pretty much allowing you to use it as you feel like (including using it in a commercial application)..

now, if only more people used that kind of license instead of getting religious...

Allan